Cardio-metabolic risk in children prenatally exposed to maternal psychosocial stress

Thesis

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Title pages

Contents

1: Introduction

2: General methods

3: Psychosocial stress during pregnancy is related to birth outcomes

4: Maternal depressive symptoms, serum folate status and pregnancy outcome

5: The relation of maternal job strain and cortisol levels during early pregnancy with body composition later in the 5-year-old child

6: Prenatal stress and balance of the child’s cardiac autonomic nervous system at age 5-6 years

7: The associations of prenatal maternal psychosocial stress with BMI and blood glucose metabolism in offspring at 5-6 years of age

8: The association between prenatal psychosocial stress and blood pressure in the child at age 5-7 years

9: The association of prenatal psychosocial stress with vascular function in the child at age 10-11 years: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

10: General discussion

11: Summary

12: Dutch summary (Samenvatting)

13: List of publications & acknowledgments