Maternal psychosocial stress during pregnancy and placenta weight: Evidence from a national cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Tegethoff, Marion ^a,b   Greene, Naomi ^c   Olsen, Jørn ^c,d   Meyer, Andrea H ^a   Meinlschmidt, Gunther ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^e National Centre of Competence in Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEWBORN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CALIBRATION; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UTERUS;

EID: 79251525532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014478     Document Type: Article

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