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Flu in pregnancy may quadruple child's risk for bipolar disorder

"Pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked to prenatal exposure to influenza...."

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-flu-pregnancy-quadruple-child-bipolar.html

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