The major complications are to quality of life:

 
• An acute psychotic illness can be a terrifying experience - the hallucinations and delusions seem utterly real while they are being experienced.
 
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It is not known whether schizophrenic women have increased incidence of complications during pregnancy and delivery. Data from the Danish Medical Birth Register were used to compare 2212 births to 1537…

Low birth weight has been associated with schizophrenia throughout each era of investigation, but this association is not invariably found, and there was significant heterogeneity in the estimate for low birth weight…

Statistical Power
The effect sizes for the relationship between obstetric risk factors and later schizophrenia are generally small, with odds ratios of less than 2.…

The much-investigated association between obstetric complications and schizophrenia has provided crucial support for developmental and nongenetic etiological models of the disorder. But does such an association really exist? This…