Cumulative maternal lifetime stress & child asthma: effect modification by BMI.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Investigations of maternal psychosocial stress and child asthma have produced mixed findings, which may reflect inconsistent consideration of modifying factors.

Objective

To examine associations between maternal lifetime stress and child asthma, and to assess effect modification by maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and race/ethnicity in a prenatal cohort of mother-child dyads.

Methods

Maternal lifetime stress was assessed using the Life Stressor Checklist-Revised, administered during pregnancy and child asthma was ascertained by parent-report in study follow-up visits. In the overall group and stratified by race/ethnicity, we used multivariable logistic regression and varying coefficient modeling to investigate the association between maternal stress a

SUBMITTER: Ramsey NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11960430 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature