Levels of maternal serum corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) at midpregnancy in relation to maternal characteristics

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 820-832

  Chen, Yumin ^a   Holzman, Claudia ^a   Chung, Hwan ^a   Senagore, Patricia ^a   Talge, Nicole M ^a   Siler Khodr, Theresa ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Center for Investigation of Cell Regulation and Replication   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Depression; Pregnancy; Race; Weight

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL STRESS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77953020003     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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