Anders Hjern

..The relative risk for poisonings, scald injuries and ingestion of foreign objects respectively was found to be correlated to quite specific ages, a finding which should be used in timing of parent counseling...

..Birth weight is a health indicator known to be sensitive to political and welfare state conditions. No former studies on urban neighbourhood differences regarding mean birth weight have been carried out in a Nordic country...

..However no previous studies on neighbourhood variations in obesity in pregnant women were found. In this study we aimed to determine whether obesity during early pregnancy varied by neighbourhood economic status...

..To test the hypothesis that psychosocial adversity in the family predicts medicated ADHD in school children...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the association of socio-economic indicators with cerebral palsy (CP) and the role of perinatal health as mediator of this association...

..Earlier studies have indicated poor long-term outcomes for patients with anorexia nervosa...

..To test the hypothesis that the risk of childhood diabetes type 1 increases with migration from a low to a high incidence region...

..In this study we investigated these symptoms in relation to potential stressors in the school environment...

..The aim was to study the impact of a range of gestational ages (GAs) on cognitive competence in late adolescence and how this effect is modified by contextual social adversity in childhood...

..We aimed to investigate differences in mortality, severe morbidity, and injury between children living in households with one adult and those living in households with two adults...

..Adoptees from other regions have a more moderately increased risk, which should be communicated to adoptive parents and to professionals who care for adoptees in their clinical practice...

..To investigate risks of placements in out-of-home care for non-European adoptees...

..To identify possible risk factors for anorexia nervosa through national registers...

..To investigate short stature and smoking habits as risk factors for birth outcome in international adoptees in comparison with non-adopted mothers...

..Previous studies have reported increased levels of neurologic and cognitive disabilities in these children. In this study, we analyzed the effect of having been born preterm on psychiatric morbidity...

..To investigate whether childhood sociodemographic factors and parental psychopathology affect suicide risk differently in men and women...

..The present study investigated whether school performance was a mediating and/or moderating factor in the path between parental socioeconomic status and the risk of hospital admission for non-fatal suicidal behaviour...

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..Education is the most influential societal determinant of living conditions in young people after early childhood. This study tested the hypothesis that school performance predicts self-inflicted injury...

..To investigate differences in the use of epidural analgesia (EDA) during labor between native Swedish and immigrant women and whether such possible differences could be explained by other maternal factors or birthweight...

..The current study investigates the background and outcome of anorexia nervosa (AN) in young men...

..This study investigates ethnic and socioeconomic risk factors for hospital admissions related to illicit drug abuse in second-generation immigrants in Sweden...

..Increasing numbers of infants born preterm survive into adulthood. In this study, we analyzed the effect of having been born preterm on disability and vocational success in young adults...

..The effects of childhood cancer on educational attainment, employment, and income in adulthood in a Swedish setting were studied...

..Evaluation and treatment strategies for ADHD need to include assessment and effective interventions for bullying. Evaluation of ADHD should be considered in children involved in bullying...

..Previous studies have shown an elevated risk for suicidal behaviour in adolescent and young adult international adoptees. Comparisons between national and international adoptees in this respect have been inconclusive...

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..To investigate whether school performance is a risk factor for suicide death later in life and, if so, to what extent this is explained by intergenerational effects of parental education...

..A policy whereby children and parents receiving long-term assistance are offered access to evidence-based prevention programs in the areas of health, education and skills training appears to be important...

..We have also studied possible gender differences...

..The risk of alcohol-related disorders in first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden were investigated and compared with the Swedish majority population to assess how alcohol habits are modified over generations in a new society...

..Further studies are needed to clarify the relation between lack of money, relational strain/support and psychosomatic complaints...

..To study socio-demographic patterns of obesity in Chinese children and adolescents...

..5 and 7 years of age for diagnosing ADHD in grade 4...

..Since social conditions in childhood are closely related to parental psychiatric illness, there is a need to disentangle how genes and social environmental factors interact...

..To study the incidence, etiologic risk factors, and outcome of biliary atresia...

..The aim of this study was to investigate rates of suicide death in second-generation immigrants and intercountry adoptees in comparison with their parental generation and the majority population...

..We aimed to assess mental health disorders and social maladjustment in adolescence and young adulthood in intercountry adoptees in Sweden...

..To investigate the relation between use of epidural analgesia (EDA) and maternal and fetal characteristics...

..Stressful childhood experiences have negative long-term health consequences. The present study examines the association between adverse childhood experiences, socioeconomic position, and risk of psychotropic medication in young adulthood...

..Our aim was to examine differences in mortality, severe morbidity and injury between lone mothers and mothers living with partners, on the assumption that the disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances contribute to poor health...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the association between fetal exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy and ADHD, taking such potential confounders into consideration...

..To investigate the prevalence of type 1 diabetes in children with an origin in Sub-Saharan Africa in Sweden...

..To assess recurrent subjective health complaints in Swedish schoolchildren with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...

..To investigate whether the age of first exposure to a high-incidence country like Sweden determines the risk of T1DM in children with an origin in a low incidence region of the world...

..Adoptees more often had psychiatric problems and were longtime recipients of social welfare. Level of education was on par with that of the general population but lower when adjusted for socioeconomic status...

..The authors examined two cohorts of female inpatients with anorexia nervosa a decade apart to determine whether there had been any changes in terms of survival...

..Health education and smoking cessation interventions should be directed at maternity care units in deprived neighbourhoods...

..The psychiatric consequences of this demographic change are insufficiently described on a population level. This study aimed to investigate whether parental age at childbearing is related to psychiatric morbidity among Swedish youths...

..Previous studies have had inadequate designs. The aim of the present study was to describe a broad range of social factors during childhood and the risk of developing psychosis later in life in a national cohort...

..Underweight was associated with a slightly increased risk for all three conditions. The increased risk of asthma in young Swedish men with obesity has remained unchanged over a period of three decades...

..This study investigates the risk and mediating mechanisms of unintentional and violent injuries in pre-school children of teenage mothers...

..We studied the effects of childhood or adolescent cancer and cancer treatment on disability as indicated by persistent aid needs in adult life...