Titre :
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Prenatal smoking exposure and offspring stress coping in late adolescence : no causal link. (2010)
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Auteurs :
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Ralf KUJA-HALKOLA ;
D'ONOFRIO (Brian-M) : USA. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Indiana University. Bloomington. IN. ;
Anastasia-N ILIADOU ;
Niklas LANGSTROM ;
Paul LICHTENSTEIN ;
Centre for Violence Prevention. Karolinska Institutet. Stockholm. SWE
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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International journal of epidemiology (vol. 39, n° 6, 2010)
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Pagination :
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1531-1540
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Tabagisme
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Tabac
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Facteur risque
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Stress
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Adolescent
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Epidémiologie
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Grossesse
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Homme
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS lIR0xpIG. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background In utero exposure to tobacco smoking has been suggested to cause persistent alterations in cognitive functioning. We examined if mothers'smoking during pregnancy (SDP) is associated with long-term impairment in offspring stress coping and the causal mechanism behind a possible link. Methods We used a large cohort (n=187 106) of young males in Sweden (mean age=18.2 years), who underwent a semi-structured psychological assessment in 1997-2006, including an evaluation of stress coping ability, as part of the compulsory military conscript examination. We compared differentially exposed siblings within nuclear families and cousins in extended families and used multilevel structural equation models to disentangle genetic from environmental contributions to the association between SDP and stress coping. Results SDP and offspring stress coping was moderately strongly associated when comparing unrelated individuals [regression coefficient (b)=-0.38 on a nine-point scale ; 95% confidence interval (CI) - 0.40 to - 0.36, P
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