ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2017
Infant hair cortisol: associations with salivary cortisol and environmental context.
Article in Developmental psychobiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04107506 (RCT of FIND Video Coaching Intervention for Caregivers Facing Economic Adversity), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S.Biological psychology · 2023Article
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- The psychobiology of child and parental stress and the subjective perception of parental stress in a clinical sample of children.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age.Child development · 2022Article
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- Social Fear in US Infants: The Roles of Hair and Salivary Cortisol.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2022Article
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- Examining attachment, cortisol secretion, and cognitive neurodevelopment in preschoolers and its predictive value for telomere length at age seven.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Sociodemographics and chronic stress in mother-toddler dyads living in poverty.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Father involvement in infancy predicts behavior and response to chronic stress in middle childhood in a low-income Latinx sample.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Early chronic stress has enduring implications for physical and mental health outcomes. Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) has emerged as a marker of cumulative cortisol exposure, yet HCC in infants is not well understood. We examined how infant HCC relates to widely used basal salivary cortisol measures, maternal HCC, and environmental context in 111 infants assessed at 6 and 12 months of age. Maternal HCC at 6 and 12 months was correlated with infant HCC at 12 months. At 12 months, infant HCC was positively associated with waking salivary cortisol concentration (SCC), evening SCC, and area under the curve (AUC), but was independent of diurnal slope. Breastfeeding was associated with lower HCC, whereas increased sleep disruption was related to flatter slope. Reduced nighttime sleep duration was related both to higher HCC and to flatter slope. A person-focused analysis indicated that the combination of high HCC and flattened slope was associated with more environmental risks, highlighting the importance of investigating the interplay between HCC and diurnal cortisol slope. Results support the validity of HCC as a marker of cumulative cortisol exposure in infancy, while emphasizing the value of including multiple cortisol measures assessing distinct aspects of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function.
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