Pregnancy anxiety predicts shorter gestation in Latina and non-Latina white women: The role of placental corticotrophin-releasing hormone

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 99, Issue , 2019, Pages 166-173

  Ramos, Isabel F ^a   Guardino, Christine M ^b   Mansolf, Maxwell ^a   Glynn, Laura M ^c,d   Sandman, Curt A ^d   Hobel, Calvin J ^a,e   Dunkel Schetter, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HPA axis; Length of gestation; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HISPANIC; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PLACENTA; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BIRTH; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; GESTATIONAL AGE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIOMARKERS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85053535581     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.09.008     Document Type: Article

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