Associations between psychosocial stress, child's anxiety, and lung function in mid-childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reducing the risk of respiratory disease during the plastic stages of lung development could have long-term health impacts. Psychosocial stress has been previously linked to adverse childhood respiratory outcomes, but the influence of child's anxiety and sex differences has not been completely elucidated.

Objective

To evaluate the association among maternal stress, child anxiety, and lung function in children and to explore differences by sex.

Methods

Cross-sectional analyses included 294 mother-child pairs from the Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment and Social Stressors (PROGRESS) birth cohort in Mexico City. Children's lung function was tested once at ages 8 to 13 years of age, and height- and sex-adjusted z-scores were estimated for for

SUBMITTER: Rivera Rivera NY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11531377 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature