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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2005) 187: 180-181
© 2005 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

SHORT REPORTS

Childhood IQ in relation to later psychiatric disorder

Evidence from a Danish birth cohort study

G. DAVID BATTY, PhD

Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

ERIK L. MORTENSEN, Cand. Psych

Department of Health Psychology, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

MERETE OSLER, DMSc

Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Correspondence: Dr G. David Batty, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ,UK. e-mail: david-b{at}msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

Declaration of interest None. Funding detailed in Acknowledgements.

Studies examining the relationship between early-life IQ and the risk of subsequent psychiatric disorder in adulthood are scarce. In the present investigation, the childhood IQ scores of 7022 singleton-born Danish males were linked to psychiatric hospital discharge records in adulthood. IQ scores were inversely related to the risk of total psychiatric illness, with the highest levels apparent in the lowest scoring IQ group (HRlowest quintile v. highest=1.70, 95% CI 1.34-2.14). Adjusting for paternal occupational social class and birth weight had only a small attenuating effect. Low childhood IQ may have an aetiological role in the development of adult total psychiatric disorder.


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