ArticlePloS one2019
Maternal caregivers have confluence of altered cortisol, high reward-driven eating, and worse metabolic health.
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- Cross-sectional relation of long-term glucocorticoids in hair with anthropometric measurements and their possible determinants: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive behavioral therapy versus general health education for family caregivers of individuals with heart failure: a pilot randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2022Trial
- Chronic Parenting Stress in Parents of Children with Autism: Associations with Chronic Stress in Their Child and Parental Mental and Physical Health.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Hair Cortisol in Young Children with Autism and Their Parents: Associations with Child Mental Health, Eating Behavior and Weight Status.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Maternal caregiving stress and metabolic health: Sexual activity as a potential buffer.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Stress, Eating Behavior and Adverse Health in Parents of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Parenting stress, dyadic coping and endocrine markers of stress and resilience in foster and biological mothers.PloS one · 2024Article
- Do subjective and objective measures of stress agree in a clinical sample of youth and their parents?Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Article
- Increased hair cortisol in mothers of children with ADHD symptoms and psychosocial adversity background.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2022Article
- The impact of preschool child and maternal attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms on mothers' perceived chronic stress and hair cortisol.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Animal models have shown that chronic stress increases cortisol, which contributes to overeating of highly palatable food, increased abdominal fat and lower cortisol reactivity. Few studies in humans have simultaneously examined these trajectories. We examined premenopausal women, either mothers of children with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder (n = 92) or mothers of neurotypical children (n = 91). At baseline and 2-years, we assessed hair cortisol, metabolic health, and reward-based eating. We compared groups cross-sectionally and prospectively, accounting for BMI change. Caregivers, relative to controls, had lower cumulative hair cortisol at each time point, with no decreases over time. Caregivers also had stable levels of poor metabolic functioning and greater reward-based eating across both time points, and evidenced increased abdominal fat prospectively (all ps ≤.05), independent of change in BMI. This pattern of findings suggest that individuals under chronic stress, such as caregivers, would benefit from tailored interventions focusing on better regulation of stress and eating in tandem to prevent early onset of metabolic disease, regardless of weight status.
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