The stress of the war leads to offspring with schizophrenia

Women who have experienced pregnancy at the time of the stress of war, is a high probability that they. Birth to a child that can later be schizophrenia, according to Reuters Children born to women who were in the second month of pregnancy during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967, the risk of schizophrenia is much higher than in adult life, say scientists from the School of Medicine in New York. The study was published in the journal BioMed. The study involved 88,829 people in Jerusalem between 1964 and 1976 to mothers born in the second month of pregnancy in June 1967. Jerusalem bombed for three days from 5 to 7 June. The war was very short. Scientists would like to know how this affects the health of children who were in utero during the war. Whether changes in people with a genetic predisposition, and run whether to epigenetic changes. A blood test was not considered in this study. Epigenetic changes affect the gene, but not the structure of the DNA. In most cases, schizophrenia manifests as a hereditary disease, but there are people who suffer from this disease, without hereditary causes. According to previous studies of stress during pregnancy can be a child-type-2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease in the future. In this study, the researchers tracked the relationship between pregnant women in armed conflict and those who become pregnant later. It was found that the stress of the war increased the risk of schizophrenia by 4.3 times from 1.2 times the boys and girls. Experts suspect that the reason for the secretion of hormones that are produced in abundance in the time of stress, because maternal placenta is very sensitive at this point, the child receives this excess hormones to future epigenetic changes what.