Sep 15, 2022 08:18 AM
https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/...ics/100714
EXCERPTS: Cannabis exposure during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of psychopathology into adolescence, especially if exposure continued later into the pregnancy, according to longitudinal findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
Among over 10,000 kids, prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) was associated with "persisting vulnerability" to psychopathology throughout early adolescence compared with no prenatal exposure (P=0.004), reported David Baranger, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and colleagues.
These findings were primarily driven by cases where cannabis exposure continued even after maternal knowledge of pregnancy, possibly due to the timing of cannabinoid receptor neural expression, they noted in JAMA Pediatrics.
[...] The current findings are in line with previous findings from the ABCD study from 2020, which showed that kids exposed to cannabis in utero were at greater risk for psychopathology during middle childhood.
"During the first wave, they were just children. Now they're edging up on adolescence," said Baranger in a press release. "We know this is a period when a large proportion of mental health diagnoses occur." (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: Cannabis exposure during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of psychopathology into adolescence, especially if exposure continued later into the pregnancy, according to longitudinal findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
Among over 10,000 kids, prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) was associated with "persisting vulnerability" to psychopathology throughout early adolescence compared with no prenatal exposure (P=0.004), reported David Baranger, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and colleagues.
These findings were primarily driven by cases where cannabis exposure continued even after maternal knowledge of pregnancy, possibly due to the timing of cannabinoid receptor neural expression, they noted in JAMA Pediatrics.
[...] The current findings are in line with previous findings from the ABCD study from 2020, which showed that kids exposed to cannabis in utero were at greater risk for psychopathology during middle childhood.
"During the first wave, they were just children. Now they're edging up on adolescence," said Baranger in a press release. "We know this is a period when a large proportion of mental health diagnoses occur." (MORE - missing details)