Chronic Stress in Pregnancy Is Associated with Low Birth Weight: A Meta-Analysis.

Alkis MatsasPanagiota PanopoulouNeofyta AntoniouAlexandra BargiotaAlexandros GryparisNikolaos Drakoulis Mastorakos GeorgeSophia N KalantaridouTheodoros PanoskaltsisNikos F VlahosGeorgios Valsamakis

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2023)

Increased maternal chronic stress, as assessed by questionnaires, in pregnancy is associated with a low-birth-weight baby. The above meta-analysis indicates that maternal high chronic stress questionnaire scores could be used as a clinical tool in order to assess low-birth-weight risk.

Keyphrases

low birth weight
preterm birth
preterm infants
human milk
pregnancy outcomes
gestational age
systematic review
birth weight
stress induced
cross sectional
pregnant women
drug induced
meta analyses
heat stress
weight gain