Stress during pregnancy and offspring pediatric disease: A national cohort study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1647-1652

  Tegethoff, Marion ^a,b   Greene, Naomi ^c   Olsen, Jørn ^c,d   Schaffner, Emmanuel ^a,e,f   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)

^f SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EAR DISEASE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LIFE STRESS; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 80455162329     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003253     Document Type: Article

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