Prenatal Maternal Objective and Subjective Stress Exposures and Rapid Infant Weight Gain.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the associations between 3 prenatal stress exposures and rapid infant weight gain.

Study design

Participants were 162 maternal-child dyads drawn from a nonrandomized controlled trial evaluating a prenatal intervention for reducing women's stress and excessive gestational weight gain and subsequent longitudinal observational study of offspring outcomes. Participants were predominantly low-income and racial or ethnic minorities, and mothers were overweight or obese prepregnancy. Primary exposures were objective stress exposures (number of stressful life events) and subjective distress (maternal perceived stress and depressive symptoms) during pregnancy. The primary outcome was rapid infant weight gain from birth to 6 months, assessed via birth records an

SUBMITTER: Felder JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7731641 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature