Prenatal stress and risk of spontaneous abortion

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 228-235

  Wainstock, Tamar ^a   Lerner Geva, Liat ^c,d   Glasser, Saralee ^c   Shoham Vardi, Ilana ^a   Anteby, Eyal Y ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

prenatal maternal stress; spontaneous abortion

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOB STRESS; KARASEKS JOB STRAIN INDEX; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SUDDEN DEATH;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RISK; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876287585     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318280f5f3     Document Type: Article

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