Birth weight and perceived stress reactivity in older age

Stress and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-63

  Schlotz, Wolff ^a,b   Phillips, David I W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

birth weight; Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD); elderly; fetal growth; fetal programming; Hertfordshire Cohort Study; older age; Perceived Stress Reactivity Scale (PSRS); prenatal adversity; stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHRONIC STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEIVED STRESS REACTIVITY; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS;

AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84873407418     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2425     Document Type: Article

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