ArticleBehavioral sleep medicine
Maternal Sleep Quality and Diurnal Cortisol Regulation Over Pregnancy.
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- Sleep During Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes From Infancy to Childhood: A Systematic Review.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Sleep Quality in High-Risk Pregnancies: Mixed Methods Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness Training Intervention.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2024Trial
- Sleep quality and health among pregnant smokers.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Trial
- Maternal health behavior during pregnancy mediates the relationship between maternal stress and newborn telomere length.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Maternal sleep deprivation and developmental programming of brain aging trajectories in offspring.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Insomnia and women: exploring vulnerability, impact, and intervention.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2026Review
- A coparent intervention to prevent prenatal stress and depression symptoms in families with lower incomes.Family relations · 2026Article
- Investigating the dynamic relations between maternal sleep and depression across pregnancy.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Is there a relationship between sleep quality, dietary intake and weight gain in Turkish pregnant women?BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Insomnia in pregnancy and obstetric outcomes.Sleep · 2025Article
- Association between prenatal maternal sleep quality, neonatal uncinate fasciculus white matter, and infant negative emotionality.EBioMedicine · 2024Article
- Cortisol Regulation among Women Who Experience Suicidal Ideation during Pregnancy.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- Poor Sleep Quality Increases Gestational Weight Gain Rate in Pregnant People: Findings from the MADRES Study.Research square · 2023Article
- Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Perceived Stress During Pregnancy: The Role of Personality.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
- Mental health, sleep quality, and hormonal circadian rhythms in pregnant women with threatened preterm labor: a prospective observational study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Observational
- A Review of the Associations Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Possible Mechanisms of Disease.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of mindfulness training on pregnancy stress and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in women in China: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Sleep quality is associated with the weight of newborns after in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2022Article
- Longitudinal and prospective assessment of prenatal maternal sleep quality and associations with newborn hippocampal and amygdala volume.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Poor sleep in pregnancy is related to adverse neonatal health. Elevated maternal cortisol has been proposed as a pathway, yet the association in pregnancy is not well understood. The goals of the current study were to examine associations between (a) sleep and cortisol, (b) sleep, cortisol, and neonatal outcomes, and (c) variables that could explain these associations. Two hundred pregnant women completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI; Buysse, Reynolds, Monk, Berman, & Kupfer, 1989) and provided diurnal salivary cortisol samples at two times over pregnancy. Poor sleep quality was associated with greater evening cortisol concentrations at 36 weeks' gestation. This association was mediated by anxiety symptoms. Higher evening cortisol at 36 weeks' gestation was associated with shorter gestation.
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