ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2019
Prenatal salivary sex hormone levels and birth-weight-for-gestational age.
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- Steroid hormones in early pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: a Chinese birth cohort.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Maternal organophosphate esters and sex steroid hormones in mid-pregnancy.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Testosterone mediates life-history trade-offs in female mammals.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Exposure to Synthetic Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Relation to Maternal and Fetal Sex Steroid Hormones: A Scoping Review.Current environmental health reports · 2024Article
- Exploring the association between grip strength and adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes: A Mendelian randomization study.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Associations of salivary aldosterone levels during pregnancy with maternal blood pressure and birth weight-for-gestational age in a Mexico City birth cohort.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024Article
- Association between foetal sex and adverse neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024Article
- Non-linear and non-additive associations between the pregnancy metabolome and birthweight.Environment international · 2021Article
- Exosomal miRNAs in urine associated with children's cardiorenal parameters: a cross-sectional study.Epigenomics · 2021Article
- Data Processing Thresholds for Abundance and Sparsity and Missed Biological Insights in an Untargeted Chemical Analysis of Blood Specimens for Exposomics.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether prenatal sex hormones from maternal saliva are associated with birth-weight-for-gestational age. STUDY
designWe measured salivary progesterone, testosterone, estradiol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and cortisone in 504 pregnant women in a Mexico City cohort. We performed linear and modified Poisson regression to examine associations of log-transformed hormones with birth-weight-for-gestational age z-scores and the risk of small-for-gestational age (SGA) and large-for-gestational age (LGA) adjusting for maternal age, sex, BMI, parity, smoking, education, and socioeconomic status.
resultsIn total, 15% of infants were SGA and 2% were LGA. Each interquartile range increment in testosterone/estradiol ratio was associated with a 0.12 decrement in birth-weight-for-gestational age z-score (95% CI: -0.27 to -0.02) and a 50% higher risk of SGA versus appropriate-for-gestational age (AGA) (95% CI: 1.13-1.99).
conclusionHigher salivary testosterone/estradiol ratios may affect fetal growth, and identifying the predictors of hormone levels may be important to optimizing fetal growth.
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