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Maternal postpartum distress and childhood overweight.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20614031     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: We investigated associations between maternal postpartum distress covering anxiety, depression and stress and childhood overweight. METHODS: We performed a prospective cohort study, including 21,121 mother-child-dyads from the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC). Maternal distress was measured 6 months postpartum by 9 items covering anxiety, depression and stress. Outcome was childhood overweight at 7-years-of age. Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed and information on maternal age, socioeconomic status, pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, parity, smoking during pregnancy, paternal BMI, birth weight, gestational age at birth, sex, breastfeeding and finally infant weight at 5 and 12 month were included in the analyses. RESULTS: We found, that postpartum distress was not associated with childhood risk of overweight, OR 1.00, 95%CI [0.98-1.02]. Neither was anxiety, depression, or stress exposure, separately. There were no significant differences between the genders. Adjustment for potential confounders did not alter the results. CONCLUSION: Maternal postpartum distress is apparently not an independent risk factor for childhood overweight at 7-years-of-age. However, we can confirm previous findings of perinatal determinants as high maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, and smoking during pregnancy being risk factors for childhood overweight.
Authors:
Teresa A Ajslev; Camilla S Andersen; Katja G Ingstrup; Ellen A Nohr; Thorkild I A Sørensen
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2010-06-30
Journal Detail:
Title:  PloS one     Volume:  5     ISSN:  1932-6203     ISO Abbreviation:  PLoS ONE     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-07-08     Completed Date:  2010-09-01     Revised Date:  2010-09-30    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101285081     Medline TA:  PLoS One     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  e11136     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. ta@ipm.regionh.dk
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Body Mass Index
Child
Denmark / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Overweight / epidemiology*
Postpartum Period / psychology*
Pregnancy
Prevalence
Prospective Studies
Risk Factors
Stress, Psychological*
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