Prenatal maternal stress: triangulating evidence for intrauterine exposure effects on birth and early childhood outcomes across multiple approaches.

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Tác giả: Yasmin I Ahmadzadeh, Helga Ask, Adrian D Askelund, Elizabeth C Corfield, George Davey Smith, Laurie J Hannigan, Alexandra Havdahl, Laura Hegemann, Ingunn Olea Lund, Tom A McAdams, Robyn E Wootton, Eivind Ystrom

Ngôn ngữ: eng

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Thông tin xuất bản: England : BMC medicine , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

ID: 190783

BACKGROUND: Maternal stress during pregnancy may impact offspring development via changes in the intrauterine environment. However, genetic and environmental factors shared between mothers and children might skew our understanding of this pathway. This study assesses whether prenatal maternal stress has causal links to offspring outcomes: birthweight, gestational age, or emotional and behavioral difficulties, triangulating across methods that account for various measured and unmeasured confounders. METHODS: We used data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), including maternal reports on prenatal stress at work, at home, and via stressful life events as exposures. Outcomes were children's birthweight and gestational age, from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, and maternal reports on early offspring emotional and behavioral difficulties. We assessed associations using four approaches: sibling control analyses, gene-environment interaction analyses, intergenerational Mendelian randomization (MR), and negative control (i.e., postnatal stress) analyses. RESULTS: Maternal prenatal stress was observationally associated with offspring lower birthweight (e.g., β CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that links between prenatal maternal stress and variation in early offspring outcomes are more likely to be confounded than causal. While no observational study can rule out causality, the consistency of our findings across different approaches is striking. Other sources of prenatal stress or more extreme levels may represent intrauterine causal risk factors for offspring development. Nonetheless, our research contributes to identifying boundary conditions of the fetal programming and developmental origins of health and disease hypotheses, which may not be as universal as sometimes assumed.
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