Observational studyThe Journal of pediatrics2020
Prenatal Maternal Objective and Subjective Stress Exposures and Rapid Infant Weight Gain.
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- Maternal prenatal stress and infant temperament at one year: exploring the mediating role of postpartum depression in the French EDEN cohort.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Infant social withdrawal and rapid infant weight gain.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Expression of Glucocorticoid and Mineralocorticoid Receptors in the Offspring of Mothers Experiencing Chronic Stress during Pregnancy.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- Programming the next generation of prenatal programming of stress research: A review and suggestions for the future of the field.Development and psychopathology · 2024Review
- The association between maternal stress and human milk concentrations of cortisol and prolactin.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Maternal stressful life events during pregnancy and childhood asthma and wheeze.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024Article
- Placental transcriptomic signatures of prenatal and preconceptional maternal stress.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Article
- Maternal stress and early childhood BMI among US children from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- The role of prenatal violence exposure in the development of disparities in children's adiposity from birth to middle childhood.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- Prenatal oxidative stress and rapid infant weight gain.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Article
- The care of infants with rapid weight gain: Should we be doing more?Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Article
- Maternal Stress and Excessive Weight Gain in Infancy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Intergenerational Transmission of Effects of Women's Stressors During Pregnancy: Child Psychopathology and the Protective Role of Parenting.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Article
- Sex-dependent associations between maternal prenatal stressful life events, BMI trajectories and obesity risk in offspring: The Raine Study.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Integrating anthropometric and cardiometabolic health methods in stress, early experiences, and development (SEED) science.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Review
- Determinants of rapid weight gain in a cohort of children in the first six months of life.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the associations between 3 prenatal stress exposures and rapid infant weight gain. STUDY
designParticipants were 162 maternal-child dyads drawn from a nonrandomized controlled trial evaluating a prenatal intervention for reducing women's stress and excessive gestational weight gain and subsequent longitudinal observational study of offspring outcomes. Participants were predominantly low-income and racial or ethnic minorities, and mothers were overweight or obese prepregnancy. Primary exposures were objective stress exposures (number of stressful life events) and subjective distress (maternal perceived stress and depressive symptoms) during pregnancy. The primary outcome was rapid infant weight gain from birth to 6 months, assessed via birth records and in-person anthropometry measurements.
resultsIn total, 28% of the sample (N = 40) met criteria for rapid infant weight gain. In adjusted models, exposure to prenatal stressful life events was associated with increased odds of rapid infant weight gain (OR 1.40, 95% CI 1.07-1.83, P = .014). Neither prenatal perceived stress (OR 0.47, 95% CI 0.16-1.37, P = .17) nor depressive symptoms (OR 0.89, 95% CI 0.76-1.03, P = .13) were significantly associated with rapid infant weight gain.
conclusionsEach additional stressful life event a woman experienced during pregnancy was associated with 40% greater odds of rapid infant weight gain. Future research should evaluate whether prenatal interventions that focus on reducing exposure to stressful events prevent rapid infant weight gain.
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