Maternal lipids in pregnancy are associated with increased offspring cortisol reactivity in childhood

Highlights • We show that the maternal prenatal metabolic milieu predicts a child’s cortisol response to a stressor at 3–5 years of age.• Increased maternal prenatal obesity, triglycerides and total cholesterol were associated with increased offspring cortisol reactivity.• Maternal metabolism may be a novel programming factor for the offspring’s HPA axis.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Psychoneuroendocrinology

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.04.018PMID 28599146PMCID 5539777
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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