ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2023
Social disadvantage during pregnancy: effects on gestational age and birthweight.
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- Not all saliva samples are equal: The role of cellular heterogeneity in DNA methylation and epigenetic age analyses with biological and psychosocial factors.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Social Determinants of Health, the developing brain, and risk and resilience for psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Prenatal Adversity and Neonatal White Matter Microstructure Independently Relate to Language Outcomes at Age 2 Years.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Stress-induced developmental plasticity and spontaneous preterm birth: A justice-oriented eco-evo-devo review.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2025Review
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- Structure-function coupling in the first month of life: Associations with age and attention.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Associations between Parenting and Cognitive and Language Abilities at 2 Years of Age Depend on Prenatal Exposure to Disadvantage.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Indicators of resource scarcity differentially moderate the impact of threat exposure on psychopathology in a cross-sectional community sample of youth.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Social disadvantage is associated with impaired increase in salivary diurnal melatonin amplitude throughout pregnancy.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Prenatal social disadvantage is associated with alterations in functional networks at birth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Prenatal environment is associated with the pace of cortical network development over the first three years of life.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Maternal prenatal social disadvantage and neonatal functional connectivity: Associations with psychopathology symptoms at age 12 months.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- The Association Between Maternal Cortisol and Infant Amygdala Volume Is Moderated by Socioeconomic Status.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Article
- Social and psychological adversity are associated with distinct mother and infant gut microbiome variations.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveWhether psychosocial adversity during pregnancy impacts fetal health outcomes at birth remains underexplored. This is a critical issue given significant social disadvantage and psychosocial stress faced by pregnant women worldwide. STUDY
designMeasures of social disadvantage and psychological factors, and medical/reproductive and nutritional health status in pregnant women were obtained at each trimester. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), we investigated the relationship of forms of adversity to each other and to infant gestational age, and birthweight.
resultsAmong 399 singletons, Social Disadvantage significantly predicted gestational age (p = 0.003), and residual birthweight (p = 0.006). There was a 0.4 week decrease in gestational age and a 3% decrease in birthweight for each standard deviation increase in Social Disadvantage.
conclusionSignificant negative effects of social adversity on the developing fetus were found. Notably, these effects emerged despite good prenatal care and after accounting for maternal age and medical reproductive risk factors.
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