ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2020
Characterizing prenatal maternal distress with unique prenatal cortisol trajectories.
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- Patterns of Maternal Distress from Pregnancy Through Childhood Predict Psychopathology During Early Adolescence.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- A framework for testing pathways from prenatal stress-responsive hormones to cardiovascular disease risk.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Maternal prenatal cortisol trajectories predict accelerated growth in infancy.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveIt is widely assumed that glucocorticoids represent a primary mechanism through which exposure to adversity and maternal psychological distress shape prenatal developmental trajectories of both mother and fetus. However, despite repeated investigations and the fact that prenatal cortisol has been reliably linked to developmental outcomes, the empirical evidence supporting an association between prenatal cortisol and maternal distress is scarce. In this study, a novel approach to assessing links between maternal prenatal psychological distress and gestational cortisol profiles, general growth mixture modeling (GGMM), was applied.
methodMeasures of pregnancy anxiety, perceived stress, and state anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as plasma samples (for determination of cortisol) were collected from 250 women 4 times during pregnancy.
resultsUsing GGMM, 3 cortisol trajectory groups were identified, including a typical group (
conclusionsThese findings suggest that psychological distress during pregnancy is associated with unique prenatal cortisol profiles and support further examination of this link, to enable continued evaluation of a plausible biological pathway by which maternal psychological distress programs fetal development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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