Preconception stress, birth weight, and birth weight disparities among US women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined the impact of preconception acute and chronic stressors on offspring birth weight and racial/ethnic birth weight disparities.

Methods

We included birth weights for singleton live first (n = 3512) and second (n = 1901) births to White, Mexican-origin Latina, other-origin Latina, and Black women reported at wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (2007-2008; ages 24-32 years). We generated factor scores for preconception acute and chronic stressors from wave I (1994-1995; ages 11-19 years) or wave III (2001-2002; ages 18-26 years) for the same cohort of women.

Results

Linear regression models indicated that chronic stressors, but not acute stressors, were inversely associated with birth weight for both first and second birt

SUBMITTER: Strutz KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4103215 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature