Severe maternal stress exposure due to bereavement before, during and after pregnancy and risk of overweight and obesity in young adult men: A danish national cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Hohwü, Lena ^a   Li, Jiong ^a   Olsen, Jørn ^a   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^b,c   Obel, Carsten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Centre for Health and Society   (Denmark)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BIRTH; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL STRESS; MILITARY SERVICE; OBESITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRECONCEPTION INJURY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PUERPERIUM; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; CHILD; COMPLICATION; DENMARK; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER;

ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTHERS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84901336804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097490     Document Type: Article

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