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Living Habits and Personality Development of Adolescent Twins: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study in a Birth Cohort from Pregnancy to Adolescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

I. Moilanen  and
P. Rantakallio
I. Moilanen*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Finland
P. Rantakallio
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Science, University of Oulu, Finland
*
Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, SF 90220 Oulu, Finland

Abstract

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The living habits of 289 twins in a one-year birth cohort beginning during pregnancy and followed up to adolescence were compared with those of 11,623 singletons and two sets of controls matched either by maternal factors and place of residence only or by these and perinatal morbidity, all from the same cohort. The twins went in for sports more often than the singletons or any kind of controls. A nonsignificant trend was found indicating that twins smoked less often than their matched controls. The twins also used alcohol less often than their controls. The intrapair similarities of twins were higher than the similarities of twins and either type of controls in all four variables tested: sports, smoking, use of alcohol, as well as having been drunk.

Keywords

TwinsSingletonsAdolescenceSportsSmokingAlcohol
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1990

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