Very low birthweight: Dysregulated gestation versus evolutionary adaptation

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 237-242

  Catalano, Ralph ^a   Karasek, Deborah ^a   Gemmill, Alison ^a   Falconi, April ^a   Goodman, Julia ^a   Magganas, Aristotle ^a   Hartig, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Economy; Perinatal health; Risk aversion; Selection in utero; Sweden; Very low birthweight

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; DECISION MAKING; NATURAL SELECTION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SWEDEN; TREND STUDY; UNEMPLOYMENT; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; EVOLUTION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REGISTER;

SWEDEN;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 84899097503     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.050     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Ammon Avalos L., Galindo C., Li D.K. Asystematic review to calculate background miscarriage rates using life table analysis. Birth Defects Research. Part A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology 2012, 94:417-423.
2. Barsky R.B., Sims E.R. Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence 2009, National Bureau of Economic Research.
3. Box G., Jenkins G., Reinsel G. Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control 2008, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.
4. Bressler S.L., Seth A.K. Wiener-Granger causality: a well established methodology. Neuroimage 2011, 58:323-329.
5. Brettell R., Yeh P.S., Impey L.W. Examination of the association between male gender and preterm delivery. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive 2008, 141:123-126.
6. Brou L., Almli L.M., Pearce B.D., Bhat G., Drobek C.O., Fortunato S., et al. Dysregulated biomarkers induce distinct pathways in preterm birth. BJOG:An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2012, 119:458-473.
7. Buss L., Tolstrup J., Munk C., Bergholt T., Ottesen B., Gronbaek M., et al. Spontaneous abortion: a prospective cohort study of younger women from the general population in Denmark. Validation, occurrence and risk determinants. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 2006, 85:467-475.
8. Campbell D.T., Ross H.L. The Connecticut crackdown on speeding: time-series data in quasi-experimental analysis. Law & Society Review 1968, 3:33-53.
9. Catalano R., Goodman J., Margerison-Zilko C.E., Saxton K.B., Anderson E., Epstein M. Selection against small males in utero: a test of the Wells hypothesis. Human Reproduction 2012, 27:1202-1208.
10. Catalano R., Hansen H.T., Hartig T. The ecological effect of unemployment on the incidence of very low birthweight in Norway and Sweden. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 1999, 40:422-428.
11. Catalano R., Margerison-Zilko C., Goldman-Mellor S., Pearl M., Anderson E., Saxton K., et al. Natural selection in utero induced by mass layoffs: the hCG evidence. Evolutionary Applications 2012, 5(8). 796-805.
12. Catalano R., Saxton K., Bruckner T., Goldman S., Anderson E. Asex-specific test of selection in utero. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2009, 257:475-479.
13. Catalano R., Zilko C.E., Saxton K.B., Bruckner T. Selection in utero: a biological response to mass layoffs. American Journal of Human Biology 2010, 22:396-400.
14. Chang I., Tiao G., Chen C. Estimation of time series parameters in the presence of outliers. Technometrics 1988, 30:193-204.
15. Clutton-Brock T. The Evolution of Parental Care 1991, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
16. Damasio A.R. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain 1994, Putnam, New York.
17. Dawkins R., Carlisle T.R. Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy. Nature 1976, 262:131-132.
18. Dijksterhuis A., Aarts H. Goals, attention, and (un)consciousness. Annual Review of Psychology 2010, 61:467-490.
19. Drukker D.M. Testing for serial correlation in linear panel-data models. Stata Journal 2003, 3:168-177.
20. Ellingsen T., Robles J. The evolution of parental investment: re-examining the anisogamy argument. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2012, 299:113-119.
21. Eurostat Unemployment Statistics 2012.
22. Forbes S. Portfolio theory and how parent birds manage investment risk. Oikos 2009, 118:1561-1569.
23. Gaddlin P.O., Finnstrom O., Samuelsson S., Wadsby M., Wang C., Leijon I. Academic achievement, behavioural outcomes and MRI findings at 15 years of age in very low birthweight children. Acta Paediatrica 2008, 97:1426-1432.
24. Goldhaber M.K., Fireman B.H. The fetal life table revisited: spontaneous abortion rates in three Kaiser permanente cohorts. Epidemiology 1991, 2:33-39.
25. Haidt J. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion 2012, Pantheon.
26. Helle S., Lummaa V., Jokela J. Accelerated immunosenescence in preindustrial twin mothers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2004, 101:12391-12396.
27. Jeannerod M. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Action 1997, Blackwell, Oxford, OX; Cambridge, MA.
28. Koestler A. The Ghost in the Machine 1967, Hutchinson, London.
29. Lummaa V. Reproductive investment in pre-industrial humans: the consequences of offspring number, gender and survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2001, 268:1977-1983.
30. Markowitz H. Portfolio selection. The Journal of Finance 1952, 7:77-91.
31. Møller A.P. Developmental selection against developmentally unstable offspring and sexual selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology 1997, 185:415-422.
32. National Institute of Economic Research, 2012. Stockholm, Sweden.
33. Powe C.E., Knott C.D., Conklin-Brittain N. Infant sex predicts breast milk energy content. American Journal of Human Biology 2010, 22:50-54.
34. Ryle G. The Concept of Mind 1949, Hutchinson's University Library, London, New York,.
35. Sheeran P., Gollwitzer P.M., Bargh J.A. Nonconscious processes and health. Health Psychology 2013, 32:460-473.
36. Sklar A.Y., Levy N., Goldstein A., Mandel R., Maril A., Hassin R.R. Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109:19614-19619.
37. Stearns S.C. Life-history tactics: a review of the ideas. Quarterly Review of Biology 1976, 3-47.
38. Stevenson D.K., Verter J., Fanaroff A.A., Oh W., Ehrenkranz R.A., Shankaran S., et al. Sex differences in outcomes of very low birthweight infants: the newborn male disadvantage. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000, 83:F182-F185.
39. Strough J., Karns T.E., Schlosnagle L. Decision-making heuristics and biases across the life span. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2011, 1235:57-74.
40. Swedish National Health Board, 2012.
41. Wegner D.M., Smart L. Deep cognitive activation: a new approach to the unconscious. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1997, 65:984-995.
42. Wilcox A.J., Baird D.D., Weinberg C.R. Time of implantation of the conceptus and loss of pregnancy. The New England Journal of Medicine 1999, 340:1796-1799.