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Adgent MA, Buth E, Noroña-Zhou A, Szpiro AA, Loftus CT, Moore PE, Wright RJ, Barrett ES, LeWinn KZ, Zhao Q, Nguyen R, Karr CJ, Bush NR, Carroll KN. Maternal stressful life events during pregnancy and childhood asthma and wheeze. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2024; 132:594-601.e3. [PMID: 38122928 PMCID: PMC11069451 DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2023.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Studies have linked prenatal maternal psychosocial stress to childhood wheeze/asthma but have rarely investigated factors that may mitigate risks. OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between prenatal stress and childhood wheeze/asthma, evaluating factors that may modify stress effects. METHODS Participants included 2056 mother-child dyads from Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-PATHWAYS, a consortium of 3 prospective pregnancy cohorts (the Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early Childhood study, The Infant Development and Environment Study, and a subset of the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth study) from 6 cities. Maternal stressful life events experienced during pregnancy (PSLEs) were reported using the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Stressful Life Events questionnaire. Parents reported child wheeze/asthma outcomes at age 4 to 6 years using standardized questionnaires. We defined outcomes as ever asthma, current wheeze, current asthma, and strict asthma. We used modified Poisson regression with robust standard errors (SEs) to estimate risk ratios (RRs) and 95% CI per 1-unit increase in PSLE, adjusting for confounders. We evaluated effect modification by child sex, maternal history of asthma, maternal childhood traumatic life events, neighborhood-level resources, and breastfeeding. RESULTS Overall, we observed significantly elevated risk for current wheeze with increasing PSLE (RR, 1.09 [95% CI, 1.03-1.14]), but not for other outcomes. We observed significant effect modification by child sex for strict asthma (P interaction = .03), in which risks were elevated in boys (RR, 1.10 [95% CI, 1.02-1.19]) but not in girls. For all other outcomes, risks were significantly elevated in boys and not in girls, although there was no statistically significant evidence of effect modification. We observed no evidence of effect modification by other factors (P interactions > .05). CONCLUSION Risk of adverse childhood respiratory outcomes is higher with increasing maternal PSLEs, particularly in boys.
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- University of Washington, Seattle WA
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- Rutgers School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute; Piscataway NJ
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA
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- University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis TN
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York NY
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van Gelder MMHJ, van Wijk EJC, Roukema J, Roeleveld N, Verhaak CM, Merkus PJFM. Maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and infant wheezing up to 2 years of age. Ann Epidemiol 2023; 88:43-50. [PMID: 37944679 DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2023.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Revised: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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PURPOSE To determine whether maternal depressive symptoms at multiple time points during pregnancy are associated with infant wheezing in the first 2 years of life to assess etiologically relevant time windows. METHODS We included Dutch women participating in the PRIDE Study with delivery in 2013-2019. Maternal depressive symptoms were assessed with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and Edinburgh Depression Scale at enrollment and in gestational weeks 17 and 34. The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire was used to assess infant wheezing biannually postpartum. Adjusted risk ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated with modified Poisson regression. RESULTS Among 5294 pregnancies included, maternal depressive symptoms in gestational weeks 15-22 was associated with any wheezing in the first 2 years of life (RR 1.36, 95% CI 1.04-1.78) and with current wheezing at 12 (RR 1.29, 95% CI 1.03-1.61) and 18 months (RR 1.33, 1.04-1.69). Depressive symptoms in gestational weeks 32-35 seemed to be associated with any wheezing reported at two years (RR 1.27, 95% CI 0.96-1.69) and current wheezing at 12 months (RR 1.28, 95% CI 1.02-1.60). Four trajectories of depressive symptoms were identified. Only the trajectory with increasing symptoms throughout pregnancy seemed to be associated with infant wheezing (RR 1.36, 95% CI 0.97-1.89). CONCLUSIONS Maternal depressive symptoms in mid- and late pregnancy may be associated with development of infant wheezing, particularly those with onset in the second half of pregnancy. Research is needed to identify biological pathways and associations with more objective, long-term respiratory morbidity.
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Psychology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Freeman RE, Qi YS, Geller RJ, Cohen AR, Iyer SS, Waynik IY, Sullivan AF, Camargo CA. Parental Mental Health and Childhood Respiratory Outcomes in a Severe Bronchiolitis Cohort. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2023; 62:1067-1079. [PMID: 36715245 DOI: 10.1177/00099228221150608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Parental mental health conditions appear to contribute to the development of childhood respiratory illness. We investigated the relationship between parental mental health and childhood respiratory illness using data from a 17-center prospective cohort study of infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis between 2011 and 2014 (n = 921). Among 779 (84.6%) participants with self-reported parental mental health history data, 184 (23.6%) had parental history of depression and 155 (19.9%) had anxiety. Multivariable analyses found that both parental history of depression (hazard ratio [HR] 1.41, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01-1.99) and anxiety (HR 1.28, 95% CI 1.08-1.52) were associated with an increased risk of recurrent wheezing by age 3 years. However, only parental history of anxiety was associated with asthma by age 5 years (odds ratio 1.79, 95% CI 1.25-2.55). Further research on exposure severity, other early life stressors, and effective methods of parental psychosocial support is needed to develop targeted risk factor prevention strategies to reduce the burden of childhood respiratory illness.
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- Rain E Freeman
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Population Health Research, School of Public and Community Health Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Shi YY, Wei Q, Ma X, Zhang Y, Wang L, Shi HJ. Maternal affective and stress-related factors during pregnancy affect the occurrence of childhood allergic diseases: A Shanghai MCPC study. J Psychosom Res 2023; 165:111142. [PMID: 36630818 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.111142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between exposures to maternal affective and stress-related factors during pregnancy and allergies in children from birth to 2 years of age. METHODS We enrolled a total of 4178 children from the Shanghai Maternal-Child Pairs Cohort and measured maternal stress, anxiety, and depression during pregnancy by applying the Life Events Scale for Pregnant Women, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale, respectively. Children's allergies were assessed by community physicians at 2, 6, 12, and 24 months, respectively; these included eczema, atopic dermatitis, food allergy, wheezing, asthma, and atopic rhinitis. We applied a latent class analysis (LCA) to these factors and analyzed the impacts of maternal affective and stress-related factors on childhood allergies by exploiting multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS Three distinct classes of children were revealed by LCA: healthy (79.8%), transient allergy (15.2%), and persistent allergy (4.9%). High maternal stress in both early and late pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of infant eczema at 2 months (aOR = 1.30, 95% CI = 1.01-1.67; aOR = 1.64, 95% CI = 1.14-2.36). Moreover, high maternal stress in late pregnancy was also associated with food allergy at 6 months, rhinitis at 2 years of age, and persistent allergy (aOR = 3.22, 95% CI = 1.27-8.12; aOR = 1.78, 95% CI = 1.01-3.15; and aOR = 1.93, 95% CI = 1.10-3.40). CONCLUSIONS The associations of maternal affective and stress-related factors during pregnancy with childhood allergies may vary by type and disease onset. We postulate that maternal stress in late pregnancy may exert a sustained negative effect on early childhood allergic diseases.
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- Yu-Yang Shi
- Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Environment Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
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- Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
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Alcala CS, Orozco Scott P, Tamayo‐Ortiz M, Hernández Chávez MDC, Schnaas L, Carroll KN, Niedzwiecki MM, Wright RO, Téllez‐Rojo MM, Wright RJ, Hsu HL, Rosa MJ. Longitudinal assessment of maternal depression and early childhood asthma and wheeze: Effect modification by child sex. Pediatr Pulmonol 2023; 58:98-106. [PMID: 36128727 PMCID: PMC9771993 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Studies report associations between maternal mental health and adverse respiratory outcomes in children; however, the impact of timing and duration of maternal distress remains understudied. We sought to longitudinally examine associations between maternal depression and childhood asthma and wheeze, and explore sex differences. METHODS Maternal depression (n = 601) was assessed using the Edinburgh Depression Scale questionnaire, dichotomized at a clinically relevant cutoff (>12) (a) during pregnancy, (b) postpartum, and (c) postpartum and subsequent time points postnatally (recurrent depression). Report of wheeze in the past 12 months (current wheeze) and asthma were obtained using the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire at 48 and 72 months. Associations were analyzed using a modified Poisson regression adjusted for covariates, and in interaction models. RESULTS Both postpartum and recurrent depression were associated with higher risk of current wheeze (relative risk [RR]: 1.87, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.21, 2.90; RR: 2.41, 95% CI: 1.53, 3.79) and asthma at 48 months (RR: 2.42, 95% CI: 1.01, 5.84; RR: 2.45, 95% CI: 1.02, 5.84). In interaction analyses, associations were stronger in females. Recurrent depression was associated with a higher risk of current wheeze at 48 months in females (RR: 4.34, 95% CI: 2.02, 9.32) when compared to males (RR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.05, 3.39). CONCLUSIONS Postpartum and recurrent depression were associated with a higher risk of wheeze and asthma in children. Understanding the temporal- and sex-specific effects of maternal depression may better inform prevention strategies.
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- Cecilia S. Alcala
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of MedicineIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Occupational Health Research UnitMexican Social Security InstituteMexico CityMexico
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- Department of Developmental NeurobiologyNational Institute of PerinatologyMexico CityMexico
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiKravis Children's HospitalNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Institute for Exposomic ResearchIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Center for Nutrition and Health ResearchNational Institute of Public HealthCuernavaca, MorelosMexico
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiKravis Children's HospitalNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Institute for Exposomic ResearchIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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Busse W, Bartels C, Rosenkranz M. Brain-Airway Interactions in Asthma. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2023; 1426:185-214. [PMID: 37464122 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32259-4_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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Asthma and brain interactions have long been appreciated and initially centered on increased anxiety and depression. Epidemiology studies have shown that early life stressors and situational disadvantages are risk factors for asthma. Conversely, the presence of asthma is a risk for mood and anxiety disorders, thus indicating a bidirectional effect between asthma and brain-related health. To substantiate asthma-brain interactions, validated instruments indicate and elucidate that communication likely exists between asthma and the brain. For example, provocation of an asthmatic response with an allergen challenge modulates how the brain responds to emotion-laden information. As detected by imaging studies, emotion-related brain activation is associated with generating airway inflammation. However, the specific mediators and processes mediating airway communication with the brain have yet to be established.Systemic inflammation is also associated with asthma and can affect other organ systems such as the cardiovascular system and the brain. Epidemiology studies have shown that asthma is a risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In support of the importance of asthma as a risk factor for impaired cognitive function, imaging studies have shown changes to the white matter of the brain in asthma patients that resemble neuroinflammation changes seen in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, bidirectional links between asthma and the brain exist with an important next research step to define asthma-brain interactions linked to neurodegeneration and dementia and explore whether treatments directed toward asthma-related inflammation can prevent the deleterious effects of asthma on brain health.
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- William Busse
- Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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Wang Y, Tzeng JY, Huang Y, Maguire R, Hoyo C, Allen TK. Duration of exposure to epidural anesthesia at delivery, DNA methylation in umbilical cord blood and their association with offspring asthma in Non-Hispanic Black women. ENVIRONMENTAL EPIGENETICS 2022; 9:dvac026. [PMID: 36694712 PMCID: PMC9854336 DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvac026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Epidural anesthesia is an effective pain relief modality, widely used for labor analgesia. Childhood asthma is one of the commonest chronic medical illnesses in the USA which places a significant burden on the health-care system. We recently demonstrated a negative association between the duration of epidural anesthesia and the development of childhood asthma; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms still remain unclear. In this study of 127 mother-child pairs comprised of 75 Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and 52 Non-Hispanic White (NHW) from the Newborn Epigenetic Study, we tested the hypothesis that umbilical cord blood DNA methylation mediates the association between the duration of exposure to epidural anesthesia at delivery and the development of childhood asthma and whether this differed by race/ethnicity. In the mother-child pairs of NHB ancestry, the duration of exposure to epidural anesthesia was associated with a marginally lower risk of asthma (odds ratio = 0.88, 95% confidence interval = 0.76-1.01) for each 1-h increase in exposure to epidural anesthesia. Of the 20 CpGs in the NHB population showing the strongest mediation effect, 50% demonstrated an average mediation proportion of 52%, with directional consistency of direct and indirect effects. These top 20 CpGs mapped to 21 genes enriched for pathways engaged in antigen processing, antigen presentation, protein ubiquitination and regulatory networks related to the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I complex and Nuclear Factor Kappa-B (NFkB) complex. Our findings suggest that DNA methylation in immune-related pathways contributes to the effects of the duration of exposure to epidural anesthesia on childhood asthma risk in NHB offspring.
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- Yaxu Wang
- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7633, USA
- Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7633, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Shahunja KM, Sly PD, Huda MM, Mamun A. Trajectories of neighborhood environmental factors and their associations with asthma symptom trajectories among children in Australia: evidence from a national birth cohort study. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2022; 20:835-847. [PMID: 36406622 PMCID: PMC9672149 DOI: 10.1007/s40201-022-00824-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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PURPOSE This study aims to investigate the prospective associations of neighborhood environmental exposure trajectories with asthma symptom trajectories during childhood developmental stages. METHODS We considered asthma symptom, neighborhood environmental factors, and socio-demographic data from the "Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)". Group-based trajectory modeling was applied to identify the trajectories of asthma symptom, neighborhood traffic conditions, and neighborhood livability scales (considered for safety and facilities). We used multivariable logistic regression models to assess associations between various neighborhood environmental factors and asthma symptom trajectories. RESULTS We included 4,174 children from the LSAC cohort in our study. Three distinct trajectories for asthma symptom were the outcome variables of this study. Among the neighborhood environmental factors, we identified two distinct trajectories for the prevalence of heavy traffic on street, and two trajectories of neighborhood liveability scale. Compared to the 'Low/no' asthma symptoms trajectory group, children exposed to a 'persistently high' prevalence of heavy traffic on street was also significantly associated with both 'transient high' [relative risk ratio (RRR):1.40, 95% CI:1.25,1.58) and 'persistent high' (RRR: 1.33, 95% CI:1.17,1.50)] asthma symptom trajectory groups. Trajectory of moderate and static neighborhood liveability score was at increased risk of being classified as 'transient high' (RRR:1.16, 95% CI:1.07,1.25) and 'persistent high' (RRR:1.38, 95% CI:1.27,1.50) trajectories of asthma symptom. CONCLUSION Exposure to heavy traffic and poor neighborhood liveability increased the risk of having an unfavourable asthma symptom trajectory in childhood. Reducing neighborhood traffic load and improving neighborhood safety and amenities may facilitate a favorable asthma symptom trajectory among these children. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40201-022-00824-z.
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- K M Shahunja
- UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- The Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- The Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Zou ML, Jiang CB, Chen YH, Wu CD, Candice Lung SC, Chien LC, Kallawicha K, Lo YC, Chao HJ. Frequent occurrence of respiratory symptoms in children is associated with exposure to air pollution, land use types, and parental mental health in the Greater Taipei area. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 206:112567. [PMID: 34932981 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Although studies have investigated the individual effects of air pollution, land use types, and parental mental health on children's respiratory health, few studies have examined the effects of these risk factors simultaneously in children aged <2 years. We investigated the effects of exposure to air pollution, land use types surrounding residences, and parental mental health on the frequent occurrence of respiratory symptoms in children aged <2 years in the Greater Taipei area. Participants were recruited from an ongoing Taiwanese birth cohort study. We analyzed the data of the participants who had been recruited from January 2011 to April 2014 and had responded to the follow-up questionnaires at 6, 12, and 24 months. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect participants' sociodemographic background and health, such as respiratory symptoms, and parental mental health. Pre- and postnatal pollution levels were estimated using the spatial interpolation technique (ordinary kriging) at children's residential addresses. Land use types surrounding participants' homes were evaluated by performing buffer analysis. Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the effects of risk factors on the frequent occurrence of child respiratory symptoms in children aged 6, 12, and 24 months. We included 228, 360, and 441 children aged 6, 12, and 24 months, respectively. Our results indicated that postnatal exposure to PM2.5 and O3 was positively associated with children's respiratory symptoms. Traffic-related land-use types, sports facilities, and commercial land surrounding homes exerted adverse effects on children's respiratory symptoms, whereas the presence of schools in the neighborhood was beneficial. Parental mental health was also associated with children's respiratory symptoms. Postnatal exposure to air pollution and land use types surrounding residences were associated with respiratory health in children aged <2 years. The residential environment is a critical factor affecting children's respiratory health of children aged <2 years.
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- Ming-Lun Zou
- School of Public Health, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, MacKay Children's Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- School of Public Health, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Neuroscience Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institute, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- School of Public Health, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Neuroscience Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- School of Public Health, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Neuroscience Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Lau HX, Kee MZL, Yap QV, Tham EH, Chan YH, Goh AEN, Teoh OH, Eriksson JG, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Chong YS, Chan JKY, Van Bever H, Lee BW, Shek LPC, Meaney MJ, Loo EXL. Associations Between Maternal Distress During Early Life Periods and Offspring Respiratory Infections and Allergic Outcomes. Front Pediatr 2022; 10:749323. [PMID: 35433563 PMCID: PMC9006870 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.749323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Background Increasing evidence suggests that maternal distress is a risk factor for development of respiratory infections and allergic diseases in the offspring. We aim to evaluate the link between maternal distress during critical periods in early life, namely the preconception, pregnancy and postnatal periods, and development of respiratory infections and allergic diseases in the offspring from the Singapore PREconception Study of long Term maternal and child Outcomes (S-PRESTO) cohort. Methods Maternal perceived distress was evaluated using validated questionnaires including Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) administered during three time periods: preconception (three months apart at four timepoints), pregnancy (during each trimester) and postnatal (3 and 6 months post-delivery). Child eczema, rhinitis and wheeze outcomes were evaluated using a modified ISAAC questionnaire at ages 3, 6, 12, and 18 months. Child allergic sensitization was determined by skin prick testing at 18 months. Results Among 332 mother-child pairs studied, higher maternal distress during preconception and pregnancy increased the risks of wheeze development in the first 18 months; for example, preconception and pregnancy BDI-II scores ≥20 were associated with increased risks of wheeze by 18 months [adjusted risk ratios 3.2 (95%CI 1.1-9.4) and 2.5 (1.0-5.9), respectively]. Emotional and practical support from family during preconception decreased the risks of offspring wheeze. No associations were observed between maternal distress and offspring eczema, rhinitis and allergic sensitization. Conclusion Maternal distress during critical early life periods was associated with offspring wheeze in the first 18 months of life. Supporting maternal mental health even before pregnancy could reduce the risk of offspring wheeze.
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- Hui Xing Lau
- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatrics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatrics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- Academic Program in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sackler Program for Epigenetics and Psychobiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Kawaguchi C, Murakami K, Ishikuro M, Ueno F, Noda A, Onuma T, Matsuzaki F, Metoki H, Kuriyama S, Obara T. Cumulative exposure to maternal psychological distress in the prenatal and postnatal periods and atopic dermatitis in children: findings from the TMM BirThree Cohort Study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2022; 22:242. [PMID: 35331140 PMCID: PMC8944031 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-04556-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background Maternal mental health problems in each of the prenatal period and postnatal period have been demonstrated as possible risk factors for atopic dermatitis (AD) in children. However, the cumulative impacts of maternal psychological distress in the prenatal and postnatal periods on AD in children remain unclear. This study examined the association between cumulative exposure to maternal psychological distress in the prenatal and postnatal periods and the development of AD in children. Methods Data were derived from the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study in Japan. In total, 8377 mother-child pairs in which the child had no AD at the age of 1 year were analyzed. Maternal psychological distress in early pregnancy and 1 year after delivery was defined as a K6 score ≥ 5, and the participants were categorized into four groups: no psychological distress in both the prenatal and postnatal periods; only the prenatal period; only the postnatal period; and both periods. The development of AD was defined as the presence of AD in a 2-year-old child without AD reported at the age of 1 year using the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire. Generalized linear model analyses were conducted to examine the association between maternal psychological distress and the development of AD in children adjusted for age at delivery, educational attainment, smoking status in pregnancy, maternal history of AD, paternal history of AD, parity, maternal body mass index, and child sex. Results Between the ages of 1 and 2 years, 14.0% of children developed AD. Maternal psychological distress in both prenatal and postnatal periods was associated with an increased risk of AD in children compared to no psychological distress in both periods (relative risk (RR), 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.34, 1.20–1.47). Maternal psychological distress in only the postnatal period was associated with an increased risk of AD in children (RR, 95% CI: 1.23, 1.07–1.39), but not in only the prenatal period (RR, 95% CI: 1.14, 0.98–1.30). Conclusions Cumulative exposure to maternal psychological distress in the prenatal and postnatal periods was associated with the development of AD in children. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12884-022-04556-8.
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- Chikana Kawaguchi
- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan. .,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan.,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan.,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan.,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.,Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan
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- Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan.,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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- Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.,Division of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 1-15-1 Fukumuro, Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 983-8536, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan.,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.,Department of Disaster Public Health, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan.,Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8573, Japan.,Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan
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Puosi E, Korhonen LS, Karlsson L, Kataja EL, Lukkarinen H, Karlsson H, Lukkarinen M. Maternal prenatal psychological distress associates with offspring early-life wheezing - FinnBrain Birth Cohort. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2022; 33:e13706. [PMID: 34845769 PMCID: PMC9299775 DOI: 10.1111/pai.13706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Exposure to prenatal maternal psychological distress may contribute to the development of childhood atopic disorders. Little is known about the importance of distress severity and its duration for the risk. Our aim was to investigate how chronic maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms across gestation influence the risk of wheezing and eczema at child age 24 months. METHODS The study population was drawn from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, including 1305 mother-infant dyads followed across gestation until the child age of 24 months when the outcomes were mother-reported wheezing ever and doctor-diagnosed eczema. To investigate the risk of wheezing phenotypes, wheezing with and without eczema was separated. Maternal distress was assessed with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for depressive and the Symptom Checklist-90 for anxiety symptoms three times during pregnancy, and the chronicity was demonstrated using symptom trajectories composed by latent growth mixture modeling. RESULTS Of the children, 219/1305 (17%) had wheezing ever and 285/1276 (22%) had eczema. Risk of wheezing ever was elevated with maternal consistently high depressive symptoms (adjusted odds ratio 2.74; 95% confidence interval 1.37-5.50) or moderate and increasing anxiety symptoms (1.94; 1.06-3.54, respectively). Similarly, wheezing without eczema was associated with consistently high depressive (3.60; 1.63-7.94, respectively) and moderate and increasing anxiety symptoms (2.43; 1.21-4.91, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Maternal chronic psychological distress across gestation was associated with toddler wheezing and especially wheezing without other atopic features (eczema). This finding supports the theory of intrauterine programming effect by maternal psychological distress on offspring immune system and respiratory morbidity.
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- Emma Puosi
- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Khan S, Bajwa S, Brahmbhatt D, Lovinsky-Desir S, Sheffield PE, Stingone JA, Li S. Multi-Level Socioenvironmental Contributors to Childhood Asthma in New York City: a Cluster Analysis. J Urban Health 2021; 98:700-710. [PMID: 34845655 PMCID: PMC8688591 DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00582-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Childhood asthma exacerbation remains the leading cause of pediatric emergency department visits and hospitalizations and disproportionately affects Latinx and Black children, compared to non-Latinx White children in NYC. Environmental exposures and socioeconomic factors may jointly contribute to childhood asthma exacerbations; however, they are often studied separately. To better investigate the multiple contributors to disparities in childhood asthma, we compiled data on various individual and neighborhood level socioeconomic and environmental factors, including education, race/ethnicity, income disparities, gentrification, housing characteristics, built environment, and structural racism, from the NYC Department of Health's KIDS 2017 survey and the US Census' American Community Survey. We applied cluster analysis and logistic regression to first identify the predominant patterns of social and environmental factors experienced by children in NYC and then estimate whether children experiencing specific patterns are more likely to experience asthma exacerbations. We found that housing and built environment characteristics, such as density and age of buildings, were the predominant features to differentiate the socio-environmental patterns observed in New York City. Children living in neighborhoods with greater proportions of rental housing, high-density buildings, and older buildings were more likely to experience asthma exacerbations than other children. These findings add to the literature about childhood asthma in urban environments, and can assist efforts to target actionable policies and practices that promote health equity related to childhood asthma.
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- Sana Khan
- City University of New York Institute for State and Local Governance, New York, NY, USA
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- NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA
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- City University of New York School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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Curci SG, Luecken LJ, Perez M, White RMB. Prenatal Neighborhood Ethnocultural Context and the Mental Health of Mothers and Children in Low-Income Mexican American Families. Child Dev 2021; 92:1785-1800. [PMID: 33929046 PMCID: PMC11110471 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods increase the risk for poor mental health among residents, yet protective factors may operate alongside risk. This study evaluated the influence of the prenatal neighborhood ethnocultural context on child behavior problems and maternal depressive symptoms. Prenatal maternal role expectations, prenatal culture-specific stress, and postpartum depression (PPD) symptoms were evaluated as mediators. Participants included 322 low-income, Mexican American mother-child dyads. Women (Mage = 27.8) reported on proposed mediators, maternal depressive symptoms, and child behavior problems at 4.5 years. Neighborhood Latinx concentration was obtained from census data. Higher Latinx concentration predicted fewer maternal depressive symptoms and child behavior problems, mediated through role expectations and PPD symptoms. Results suggest prenatal neighborhood context to impact later maternal and child mental health.
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- T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
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Stepanikova I, Thon V, Mikes O, Klanova J. A model of perinatal stress and childhood wheezing: ELSPAC-CZ cohort. Pediatr Pulmonol 2021; 56:1471-1483. [PMID: 33721420 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.25346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prenatal origins of wheezing are not fully understood. This study develops a model of mechanisms linking perinatal stress exposure to wheeze phenotypes in children. METHODS Data were obtained from 1880 mother-child dyads participating in ELSPAC-CZ birth cohort. Wheeze phenotypes assessed between birth and age 7 years included "never wheeze," "early-onset transient (EOT) wheeze," "early-onset persistent (EOP) wheeze," and "late-onset (LO) wheeze." Prenatal and postnatal stress exposures were assessed in mid-pregnancy and 6 months after delivery, respectively, using an inventory of 42 life events. RESULTS In adjusted models, children in the highest tercile (high) versus lowest tercile (low) for prenatal life events had a 38% higher risk of EOT wheeze (relative risk ratio [RRR] = 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.01-1.88; p = .041) and 50% higher risk of LO wheeze (RRR = 1.50; 95% CI = 1.00-2.25; p = .047). High versus low exposure to postnatal life events predicted a 60% increase in relative risk of EOT wheeze (RRR = 1.60; 95% CI = 1.17-2.19; p = .003) and medium versus low exposure was related to an 85% increase in relative risk of EOP wheeze (RRR = 1.85; 95% CI = 1.16-2.95; p = .010). Lower respiratory tract infections and postpartum depression partially mediated between postnatal life events and any wheeze (indirect effects 1.06, 95% CI = 1.02-1.09, p = .003 and odds ratio [OR] = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.02-1.15, p = .012, respectively), while postnatal events mediate for prenatal events (indirect effect OR = 1.11; 95% CI = 1.03-1.18; p = .005). CONCLUSIONS Exposures to prenatal and postnatal life events are risk factors for the development of wheezing. Prenatal stress contributes to wheeze directly and also through postnatal life events, respiratory infections, and maternal depression.
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- Irena Stepanikova
- Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- RECETOX, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- RECETOX, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Bozack AK, Colicino E, Rodosthenous R, Bloomquist TR, Baccarelli AA, Wright RO, Wright RJ, Lee AG. Associations between maternal lifetime stressors and negative events in pregnancy and breast milk-derived extracellular vesicle microRNAs in the programming of intergenerational stress mechanisms (PRISM) pregnancy cohort. Epigenetics 2021; 16:389-404. [PMID: 32777999 PMCID: PMC7996083 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2020.1805677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 07/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Maternal stress is associated with adverse child health. Breast milk microRNAs encapsulated in extracellular vesicles (EVs) are involved in mother-infant biochemical communication during early-life programming. We leverage the PRogramming of Intergenerational Stress Mechanisms (PRISM) pregnancy cohort to investigate associations between maternal stress and breast milk EV-microRNAs. Lifetime stress and negative life events (NLEs) during pregnancy were assessed using the Life Stressor Checklist-Revised (LSCR) and the Crisis in Family Systems-Revised surveys, respectively. RNA was extracted from breast milk EVs (N = 80; collected 6.1 ± 5.9 weeks postnatally), and microRNAs were profiled using the TaqMan OpenArray Human miRNA panel. Associations between stress scores and detection (yes/no) of 173 microRNAs identified in 20-80% of samples were assessed using logistic regression; associations with expression levels of 205 EV-microRNAs identified in >50% of samples were assessed using linear regression. In adjusted models, detection of 60 and 44 EV-microRNAs was associated with higher LSCR and NLE scores, respectively (p < 0.05). Expression level of 8 and 17 EV-microRNAs was associated with LSCR and NLE scores, respectively, at our a priori criteria of p < 0.05 and |Bregression|>0.2. Enriched KEGG pathways for microRNAs associated with stress scores included fatty acid metabolism and the Hippo signaling pathway. Maternal lifetime stress and NLEs during pregnancy were both associated with detection and expression level of breast milk EV-microRNAs, although associations with microRNA profiles differed between stress measures. Further research is needed to identify biological pathways impacted by associated microRNAs and investigate relationships with child health outcomes.Abbreviations: EV: extracellular vesicle; PRISM: PRogramming of Intergenerational Stress Mechanisms pregnancy cohort; LSCR: Life Stressor Checklist-Revised survey; NLE: negative life event; CRISYS-R: Crisis in Family Systems-Revised survey; KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes; NYC: New York City; SD: standard deviation; IQR: interquartile range; Cq: relative cycle threshold values; PCA: principal component analysis.
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- Anne K. Bozack
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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Ramratnam SK, Lockhart A, Visness CM, Calatroni A, Jackson DJ, Gergen PJ, Bacharier LB, O'Connor GT, Sandel MT, Kattan M, Wood RA, Gern JE. Maternal stress and depression are associated with respiratory phenotypes in urban children. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2021; 148:120-127. [PMID: 33713764 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Prenatal and early-life exposure to maternal stress and depression is linked to development of recurrent wheezing in young children. OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether maternal stress and depression in early life are associated with nonatopic wheezing phenotype in urban children. METHODS The Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma Study examined a birth cohort of children at high risk for asthma in low-income neighborhoods. Prenatal and postnatal (through age 3 years) maternal stress and depression scores were compared with respiratory phenotypes through age 10 years (multinomial regression), self-reported colds (linear regression), and detection of respiratory viruses (Poisson regression). RESULTS Scores for maternal depression, and, to a lesser extent, maternal perceived stress, were positively related to multiple wheezing phenotypes. In particular, cumulative measures of maternal depression in the first 3 years were related to the moderate-wheeze-low-atopy phenotype (odds ratio, 1.13; [1.05, 1.21]; P < .01). Considering indicators of respiratory health that were used to identify the phenotypes, there were multiple positive associations between early-life scores for maternal stress and depression and increased wheezing illnesses, but no consistent relationships with lung function and some inverse relationships with allergic sensitization. Cumulative maternal stress and depression scores were associated with cumulative number of respiratory illnesses through age 3 years. CONCLUSIONS Among high-risk, urban children, maternal stress and depression in early life were positively associated with respiratory illnesses and a moderate-wheeze-low-atopy phenotype. These results suggest that treating stress and depression in expectant and new mothers could reduce viral respiratory illnesses and recurrent wheeze during the preschool years and some forms of childhood asthma.
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- Sima K Ramratnam
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wis.
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wis
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Md
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, Mo
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, Md
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wis
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Wan MW, Janta-Lipinski M, Osam CS. Childhood Allergies: The Role of Maternal Depression and Anxiety, and Family Strain. CHILDREN-BASEL 2021; 8:children8030185. [PMID: 33804405 PMCID: PMC7999446 DOI: 10.3390/children8030185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2021] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Maternal mental disorder and a negative family emotional climate are a great source of stress for many children, yet their role in the childhood development or expression of asthma and allergies remains poorly understood, particularly beyond the first 1–2 years of life. The current study tested whether childhood allergy onset and symptomatology would be predicted by (1) perinatal and any time exposure to maternal depression or anxiety and (2) current family emotional strain (whole family, mother-child). UK mothers of children aged 2–12 years (N = 328) living with them completed an online survey of measures. Children exposed to maternal depression were almost twice as likely to be diagnosed and almost five times as likely to screen positive for an allergic disorder. Perinatal depression was linked to childhood allergies, but more moderately. Any anxiety exposure, and not specific to the perinatal period, predicted allergy status. Family emotional strain contributed independently to variance in concurrent child allergic symptomatology. All results were independent of potential confounders and current mental distress. The findings highlight the importance of maternal mental health and family function in the child’s neuro-immune development, and that these factors need to be addressed in the treatment of childhood allergic disorders.
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- Ming Wai Wan
- Perinatal Mental Health and Parenting Research Unit (PRIME-RU), School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
- Centre for Women’s Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
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- Perinatal Mental Health and Parenting Research Unit (PRIME-RU), School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
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- Centre for Women’s Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
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Chua RXY, Tay MJY, Ooi DSQ, Siah KTH, Tham EH, Shek LPC, Meaney MJ, Broekman BFP, Loo EXL. Understanding the Link Between Allergy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Current Review of Factors and Mechanisms. Front Neurol 2021; 11:603571. [PMID: 33658968 PMCID: PMC7917177 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.603571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Both allergic diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders are non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that not only impact on the quality of life and but also result in substantial economic burden. Immune dysregulation and inflammation are typical hallmarks in both allergic and neurodevelopmental disorders, suggesting converging pathophysiology. Epidemiological studies provided convincing evidence for the link between allergy and neurodevelopmental diseases such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Possible factors influencing the development of these disorders include maternal depression and anxiety, gestational diabetes mellitus, maternal allergic status, diet, exposure to environmental pollutants, microbiome dysbiosis, and sleep disturbances that occur early in life. Moreover, apart from inflammation, epigenetics, gene expression, and mitochondrial dysfunction have emerged as possible underlying mechanisms in the pathogenesis of these conditions. The exploration and understanding of these shared factors and possible mechanisms may enable us to elucidate the link in the comorbidity.
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- Regena Xin Yi Chua
- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University Medicine Cluster, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore.,Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Psychiatry, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis and Amsterdam University Medical Centre, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), Singapore, Singapore
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Huang Y, Tzeng JY, Maguire R, Hoyo C, Allen T. The association between neuraxial anesthesia and the development of childhood asthma - a secondary analysis of the newborn epigenetics study cohort. Curr Med Res Opin 2020; 36:1025-1032. [PMID: 32212939 PMCID: PMC7269869 DOI: 10.1080/03007995.2020.1747417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Objectives: Childhood asthma is a common chronic illness that has been associated with mode of delivery. However, the effect of cesarean delivery alone does not fully account for the increased prevalence of childhood asthma. We tested the hypothesis that neuraxial anesthesia used for labor analgesia and cesarean delivery alters the risk of developing childhood asthma.Methods: Within the Newborn Epigenetics Study birth cohort, 196 mother and child pairs with entries in the electronic anesthesia records were included. From these records, data on maternal anesthesia type, duration of exposure, and drugs administered peripartum were abstracted and combined with questionnaire-derived prenatal risk factors and medical records and questionnaire-derived asthma diagnosis data in children. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate associations between type of anesthesia, duration of anesthesia, and the development of asthma in males and females.Results: We found that longer duration of epidural anesthesia was associated with a lower risk of asthma in male children (OR = 0.80; 95% CI = 0.66-0.95) for each hour of epidural exposure. Additionally, a unit increase in the composite dose of local anesthetics and opioid analgesics administered via the spinal route was associated with a lower risk of asthma in both male (OR = 0.59, 95% CI = 0.36-0.96) and female children (OR 0.26, 95% CI 0.09-0.82).Conclusion: Our data suggest that peripartum exposure to neuraxial anesthesia may reduce the risk of childhood asthma primarily in males. Larger human studies and model systems with longer follow-up are required to elucidate these findings.
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- Yueyang Huang
- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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Campbell RK, Tamayo-Ortiz M, Cantoral A, Schnaas L, Osorio-Valencia E, Wright RJ, Téllez-Rojo MM, Wright RO. Maternal Prenatal Psychosocial Stress and Prepregnancy BMI Associations with Fetal Iron Status. Curr Dev Nutr 2020; 4:nzaa018. [PMID: 32099952 PMCID: PMC7026381 DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Iron accrued in utero is critical for fetal and infant neurocognitive development. Psychosocial stress and obesity can each suppress fetal iron accrual. Their combined effects and differences by fetal sex are not known. In an observational pregnancy cohort study in Mexico City, we investigated associations of maternal prenatal life stressors, psychological dysfunction, and prepregnancy BMI with fetal iron status at delivery. OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that greater maternal prenatal psychosocial stress and prepregnancy overweight and obesity are associated with lower cord blood ferritin and hemoglobin (Hb), with stronger associations in boys than girls. METHODS Psychosocial stress in multiple domains of life stress (negative life events, perceived stress, exposure to violence) and psychological dysfunction symptoms (depression, generalized anxiety, and pregnancy-specific anxiety) were assessed with validated questionnaires during pregnancy. Prepregnancy BMI was predicted with a validated equation and categorized as normal/overweight/obese. Cord blood ferritin and Hb associations with prenatal psychosocial stress and BMI were modeled in multivariable linear regressions adjusted for maternal age, socioeconomic status, child sex, and prenatal iron supplementation. Interactions with child sex and 3-way stress-overweight/obesity-sex interactions were tested with product terms and likelihood ratio tests. RESULTS In 493 dyads, median (IQR) cord blood ferritin and Hb concentrations were 185 µg/L (126-263 g/dL) and 16 g/dL (14.7-17.1 g/dL), respectively. Ferritin was lower in infants of mothers with higher prenatal perceived stress (-23%; 95% CI: -35%, -9%), violence exposure (-28%; 95% CI: -42%, -12%), anxiety symptoms (-16%; 95% CI: -27%, -4%), and obesity (-17%; 95% CI: -31%, 0.2%). Interaction models suggested sex differences and synergism between maternal stress and overweight/obesity. No associations were observed between stress or BMI and Hb. CONCLUSIONS Multiple prenatal psychosocial stressors and excess prepregnancy BMI were each inversely associated with fetal iron status at birth. Pregnancies and infants at elevated risk of impaired fetal iron accrual may be identifiable according to observed synergism between maternal stress and obesity and differential associations with fetal iron status by infant sex.
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- Rebecca K Campbell
- Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Research in Community Interventions, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Research in Community Interventions, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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MacGinty R, Lesosky M, Barnett W, Nduru PM, Vanker A, Stein DJ, Zar HJ. Maternal psychosocial risk factors and lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) during infancy in a South African birth cohort. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0226144. [PMID: 31887159 PMCID: PMC6936815 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 11/20/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Objective To investigate the association between maternal antenatal and/or postnatal psychosocial risk factors (including depression, psychological distress, alcohol abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV) and infant lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in a low- and middle-income-country (LMIC). Study design Pregnant women (n = 1137) enrolled in a South African birth cohort study, the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS) were longitudinally assessed for psychosocial risk factors including depression, psychological distress, alcohol abuse and/or intimate partner violence (IPV). Infants were followed from birth until one year of age for the development of LRTI by active surveillance. Two outcomes were evaluated: any LRTI, and severe and/or hospitalised LRTI. Logistic regression was used to identify associations between individual maternal psychosocial risk factors and LRTI outcomes. Analyses stratified by age were also performed to determine which age groups related to infant LRTI were linked with maternal psychosocial risk factors. Results There were 606 LRTI episodes in 369 infants in the first year (crude incidence rate = 0.53 episodes per person-year, 95%CI: 0.50; 0.56); 31% (n = 186) of episodes were severe or hospitalised events. Maternal psychosocial risk factors were associated with LRTI and severe LRTI, particularly postnatal and long-term maternal psychological distress, antenatal maternal alcohol consumption, and postnatal maternal IPV. Age stratified analyses found that antenatal maternal alcohol consumption was associated with early infant LRTI, while antenatal maternal depression was linked with infant severe LRTI between 3 and 6 months of age, and postnatal maternal IPV was associated with early LRTI and severe forms of LRTI. Conclusion The associations between maternal psychosocial risk factors and infant LRTI highlight the potential value of screening for maternal psychosocial risk factors in clinical settings and developing targeted interventions. Such interventions may not only improve maternal well-being, but also help reduce the burden of infant LRTI in LMIC settings.
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- Rae MacGinty
- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, South African Medical Research Council Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Stroustrup A, Bragg JB, Spear EA, Aguiar A, Zimmerman E, Isler JR, Busgang SA, Curtin PC, Gennings C, Andra SS, Arora M. Cohort profile: the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospital Exposures and Long-Term Health (NICU-HEALTH) cohort, a prospective preterm birth cohort in New York City. BMJ Open 2019; 9:e032758. [PMID: 31772104 PMCID: PMC6887035 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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PURPOSE The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospital Exposures and Long-Term Health (NICU-HEALTH) longitudinal preterm birth cohort studies the impact of the NICU exposome on early-life development. NICU-HEALTH collects multiple biospecimens, complex observational and survey data and comprehensive multisystem outcome assessments to allow measurement of the impact of modifiable environmental exposures during the preterm period on neurodevelopmental, pulmonary and growth outcomes. PARTICIPANTS Moderately preterm infants without genetic or congenital anomalies and their mothers are recruited from an urban academic medical centre level IV NICU in New York City, New York, USA. Recruitment began in 2011 and continues through multiple enrolment phases to the present with goal enrolment of 400 infants. Follow-up includes daily data collection throughout the NICU stay and six follow-up visits in the first 2 years. Study retention is 77% to date, with the oldest patients turning age 8 in 2019. FINDINGS TO DATE NICU-HEALTH has already contributed significantly to our understanding of phthalate exposure in the NICU. Phase I produced the first evidence of the clinical impact of phthalate exposure in the NICU population. Further study identified specific sources of exposure to clinically relevant phthalate mixtures in the NICU. FUTURE PLANS Follow-up from age 3 to 12 is co-ordinated through integration with the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) programme. The NICU-HEALTH cohort will generate a wealth of biomarker, clinical and outcome data from which future studies of the impact of early-life chemical and non-chemical environmental exposures can benefit. Findings from study of this cohort and other collaborating environmental health cohorts will likely translate into improvements in the hospital environment for infant development. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS This observational cohort is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01420029 and NCT01963065).
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- Annemarie Stroustrup
- Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
- Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
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- Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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- Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA
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Rusconi F, Gagliardi L, Gori E, Porta D, Popovic M, Asta F, Brescianini S, Richiardi L, Ronfani L, Stazi MA. Perinatal maternal mental health is associated with both infections and wheezing in early childhood. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2019; 30:732-738. [PMID: 31251839 DOI: 10.1111/pai.13103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Revised: 06/09/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Wheezing and infections are common during infancy, and the role of early-life exposures in their development is still under investigation. We examined associations between maternal mental health in pregnancy and after delivery and subsequent offspring wheezing and infections. METHODS We studied 2314 mother-child pairs recruited in the Piccolipiù birth cohort (Italy) from 2011 to 2015. Maternal mental health was assessed in pregnancy and 12 months after delivery via the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). GHQ-12 Likert scores were collapsed into low (below the upper tercile) and high (above). Risk ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) between each combination of scores-during pregnancy and 1 year after delivery-and outcomes were computed by log-binomial regression models. RESULTS High scores both in pregnancy and after delivery, compared with low scores in both periods, were associated with wheezing (RR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.08, 1.69), recurrent (≥2 episodes) wheezing (1.35; 0.99, 1.83), any and recurrent (≥4 episodes) upper respiratory infections (1.20; 1.04, 1.41, and 1.45; 1.07, 1.97, respectively), lower respiratory infections (1.31; 1.08, 1.61), and diarrhea (1.49; 1.23, 1.80). High scores either during pregnancy or 1 year after delivery only were less consistently associated with outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Maternal mental health problems extending from pregnancy to the first year after delivery are associated with development of both wheezing and infections. As wheezing is mostly triggered by infections, increased infection susceptibility could represent a possible common biologic mechanism. This study confirms the importance of early-life exposures on childhood health.
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- Franca Rusconi
- Unit of Epidemiology, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ospedale Versilia, Viareggio, Italy
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- Unit of Epidemiology, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service-ASL ROMA1, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, CPO Piemonte, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service-ASL ROMA1, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, CPO Piemonte, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Italy
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- Center for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Ae-Ngibise KA, Wylie BJ, Boamah-Kaali E, Jack DW, Oppong FB, Chillrud SN, Gyaase S, Kaali S, Agyei O, Kinney PL, Mujtaba M, Wright RJ, Asante KP, Lee AG. Prenatal maternal stress and birth outcomes in rural Ghana: sex-specific associations. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2019; 19:391. [PMID: 31664941 PMCID: PMC6819589 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-019-2535-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background In developed countries, prenatal maternal stress has been associated with poor fetal growth, however this has not been evaluated in rural sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated the effect of prenatal maternal stress on fetal growth and birth outcomes in rural Ghana. Methods Leveraging a prospective, rural Ghanaian birth cohort, we ascertained prenatal maternal negative life events, categorized scores as 0-2 (low stress; referent), 3-5 (moderate), and > 5 (high) among 353 pregnant women in the Kintampo North Municipality and Kintampo South District located within the middle belt of Ghana. We employed linear regression to determine associations between prenatal maternal stress and infant birth weight, head circumference, and length. We additionally examined associations between prenatal maternal stress and adverse birth outcome, including low birth weight, small for gestational age, or stillbirth. Effect modification by infant sex was examined. Results In all children, high prenatal maternal stress was associated with reduced birth length (β = − 0.91, p = 0.04; p-value for trend = 0.04). Among girls, moderate and high prenatal maternal stress was associated with reduced birth weight (β = − 0.16, p = 0.02; β = − 0.18, p = 0.04 respectively; p-value for trend = 0.04) and head circumference (β = − 0.66, p = 0.05; β = − 1.02, p = 0.01 respectively; p-value for trend = 0.01). In girls, high prenatal stress increased odds of any adverse birth outcome (OR 2.41, 95% CI 1.01-5.75; p for interaction = 0.04). Sex-specific analyses did not demonstrate significant effects in boys. Conclusions All infants, but especially girls, were vulnerable to effects of prenatal maternal stress on birth outcomes. Understanding risk factors for impaired fetal growth may help develop preventative public health strategies. Trial registration NCT01335490 (prospective registration). Date of Registration: April 14, 2011. Status of Registration: Completed.
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- Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise
- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana.,School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Brong Ahafo Region, Kintampo, Ghana
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1468 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
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Rusconi F, Gagliardi L. Pregnancy Complications and Wheezing and Asthma in Childhood. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019; 197:580-588. [PMID: 29064265 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201704-0744pp] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Franca Rusconi
- 1 Epidemiology Unit, Anna Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy; and
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- 2 Pediatrics and Neonatology Division, Versilia Hospital, Azienda Toscana Nord Ovest, Pisa, Italy
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Brew BK, Lundholm C, Viktorin A, Lichtenstein P, Larsson H, Almqvist C. Longitudinal depression or anxiety in mothers and offspring asthma: a Swedish population-based study. Int J Epidemiol 2019; 47:166-174. [PMID: 29040553 PMCID: PMC5837783 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background Previous research has found that maternal stress during pregnancy increases the risk of offspring asthma. However, whether this association is consistent with a causal interpretation has never been tested. The objective is to determine whether there is a critical exposure period for maternal depression or anxiety on offspring asthma or whether cumulative exposure is most important, and to investigate evidence of confounding. Methods The study population included all children born in Sweden from July 2006 to December 2009 (n = 360 526). Information about childhood asthma, maternal depression or anxiety (diagnosis or medication) and covariates was obtained from the Swedish national health registers. The associations between exposure periods (pre-conception, pregnancy, postnatal or current) and childhood asthma were estimated using structured life course approach hypothesis testing. Paternal and cousin analyses were used to test for evidence of confounding from shared genes and environment. Results For childhood asthma, cumulative exposure best described the effect of exposure to maternal depression or anxiety up to a maximum of any two exposure periods [adjusted odds ratio 1.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.38, 1.52]. The hypotheses of a critical period were not supported. The paternal and cousin analyses indicated minimal influence from familial confounding. Conclusions These findings support an association between cumulative exposure to maternal depression or anxiety and asthma development in offspring. This association is unique for maternal depression or anxiety and not due to familial confounding. The clinical implication is that effective psychological management of women with chronic distress may reduce offspring asthma risk.
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- Bronwyn K Brew
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Corresponding author. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 281, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail:
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Bose S, Rosa MJ, Mathilda Chiu YH, Leon Hsu HH, Di Q, Lee A, Kloog I, Wilson A, Schwartz J, Wright RO, Morgan WJ, Coull BA, Wright RJ. Prenatal nitrate air pollution exposure and reduced child lung function: Timing and fetal sex effects. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2018; 167:591-597. [PMID: 30172192 PMCID: PMC6196719 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 08/10/2018] [Accepted: 08/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Prenatal particulate air pollution exposure may alter lung growth and development in utero in a time-sensitive and sex-specific manner, resulting in reduced lung function in childhood. Such relationships have not been examined for nitrate (NO3-). METHODS We implemented Bayesian distributed lag interaction models (BDLIMs) to identify sensitive prenatal windows for the influence of NO3- on lung function at age 7 years, assessing effect modification by fetal sex. Analyses included 191 mother-child dyads. Daily ambient NO3- exposure over pregnancy was estimated using a hybrid chemical transport (Geos-Chem)/land-use regression model. Spirometry was performed at mean (SD) age of 6.99 (0.89) years, with forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) z-scores accounting for child age, sex, height and race/ethnicity. RESULTS Most mothers were Hispanic (65%) or Black (22%), had ≤ high school education (67%), and never smoked (71%); 17% children had asthma. BDILMs adjusted for maternal age and education and child's asthma identified an early sensitive window of 6-12 weeks gestation, during which increased NO3- was significantly associated with reduced FEV1 z-scores specifically among boys. BDLIM analyses demonstrated similar sex-specific patterns for FVC. CONCLUSION Early gestational NO3- exposure is associated with reduced child lung function, especially in boys.
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- Sonali Bose
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States; Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1198, New York, NY 10029, United States
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1198, New York, NY 10029, United States
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, BeerSheba, Israel
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- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1198, New York, NY 10029, United States; Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States; Institute for Exposomics Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Arizona, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1198, New York, NY 10029, United States; Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States; Institute for Exposomics Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States.
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Maternal psychological distress during pregnancy and childhood health outcomes: a narrative review. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2018; 10:274-285. [PMID: 30378522 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174418000557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Maternal psychological distress is common in pregnancy and may influence the risk of adverse outcomes in children. Psychological distress may cause a suboptimal intrauterine environment leading to growth and developmental adaptations of the fetus and child. In this narrative review, we examined the influence of maternal psychological distress during pregnancy on fetal outcomes and child cardiometabolic, respiratory, atopic and neurodevelopment-related health outcomes. We discussed these findings from an epidemiological and life course perspective and provided recommendations for future studies. The literature in the field of maternal psychological distress and child health outcomes is extensive and shows that exposure to stress during pregnancy is associated with multiple adverse child health outcomes. Because maternal psychological distress is an important and potential modifiable factor during pregnancy, it should be a target for prevention strategies in order to optimize fetal and child health. Future studies should use innovative designs and strategies in order to address the issue of causality.
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Radhakrishnan D, Shariff SZ, To T. The influence of prenatal mental health service use on the incidence of childhood asthma: a population-based cohort study. J Asthma 2018; 56:395-403. [PMID: 29693465 DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2018.1466313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine whether maternal mental health service use during pregnancy, a potential proxy measure of prenatal maternal stress, is associated with the development of asthma in a large population-based sample of children. We hypothesized that children born to mothers with mental health service use during pregnancy would have a higher incidence of childhood asthma. STUDY DESIGN Health administrative data from Ontario, Canada (population >13 million) was used to identify pairs of mothers linked with their children born between April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002. Descriptive statistics were used to compare the cumulative incidence of asthma by age 12 years in children whose mothers did or did not have prenatal mental health service use. Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the association between prenatal maternal mental health service use and childhood asthma incidence, after adjusting for the child's sex, residency (rural vs. urban), socioeconomic status, comorbid health conditions, low birthweight, and maternal history of asthma. RESULTS In a population-based sample of 122,333 children, those born to mothers with mental health service use during pregnancy had increased odds of developing asthma (odds ratio: 1.16, 95% confidence intervals: 1.12, 1.20, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Prenatal maternal mental health service use is an independent risk factor for the development of asthma in childhood. This supports growing evidence for the importance of in utero exposure to maternal stress factors in asthma pathogenesis. This study highlights a potential strategy for the primary prevention of childhood asthma, namely improved recognition and management of mental health issues and stress in pregnant mothers.
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- Dhenuka Radhakrishnan
- a Department of Pediatrics , Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.,b Department of Pediatrics , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.,c Department of Pediatrics , Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences , Ontario , Canada
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- c Department of Pediatrics , Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences , Ontario , Canada
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- c Department of Pediatrics , Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences , Ontario , Canada.,d Department of Pediatrics , Hospital for Sick Children, Child Health Evaluative Sciences , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.,e Department of Pediatrics , Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario , Canada
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Bush A. A scandal in South Africa: And not just there! Pediatr Pulmonol 2018; 53:698-700. [PMID: 29673131 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.24010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Andrew Bush
- Imperial College, London, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK.,Royal Brompton Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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Magnus MC, Wright RJ, Røysamb E, Parr CL, Karlstad Ø, Page CM, Nafstad P, Håberg SE, London SJ, Nystad W. Association of Maternal Psychosocial Stress With Increased Risk of Asthma Development in Offspring. Am J Epidemiol 2018; 187:1199-1209. [PMID: 29244063 PMCID: PMC5982733 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Prenatal maternal psychosocial stress might influence the development of childhood asthma. Evaluating paternal psychosocial stress and conducting a sibling comparison could provide further insight into the role of unmeasured confounding. We examined the associations of parental psychosocial stress during and after pregnancy with asthma at age 7 years in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (n = 63,626; children born in 2000-2007). Measures of psychosocial stress included lifetime major depressive symptoms, current anxiety/depression symptoms, use of antidepressants, anxiolytics, and/or hypnotics, life satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, work stress, and social support. Childhood asthma was associated with maternal lifetime major depressive symptoms (adjusted relative risk (aRR) = 1.19, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.09, 1.30), in addition to symptoms of anxiety/depression during pregnancy (aRR = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.06, 1.29) and 6 months after delivery (aRR = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.07, 1.28). Maternal negative life events during pregnancy (aRR = 1.10, 95% CI: 1.06, 1.13) and 6 months after delivery (aRR = 1.14, 95% CI: 1.11, 1.18) were also associated with asthma. These associations were not replicated when evaluated within sibling groups. There were no associations with paternal psychosocial stress. In conclusion, maternal anxiety/depression and negative life events were associated with offspring asthma, but this might be explained by unmeasured maternal background characteristics that remain stable across deliveries.
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- Maria C Magnus
- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Community Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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MacGinty RP, Lesosky M, Barnett W, Stein DJ, Zar HJ. Associations between maternal mental health and early child wheezing in a South African birth cohort. Pediatr Pulmonol 2018; 53:741-754. [PMID: 29635887 PMCID: PMC6001799 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.24008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Wheezing in early childhood is common and has been identified in high-income countries (HIC) as associated with maternal antenatal or postnatal psychosocial risk factors. However, the association between maternal mental health and childhood wheezing has not been well studied in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), such as South Africa. METHODS A total of 1137 pregnant women over 18 year old, between 20 and 28 weeks' gestation, and attending either of two catchment area clinics were enrolled in a South African parent study, the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS). Psychosocial risk factors including maternal depression, psychological distress, early adversity, and intimate partner violence (IPV), were measured antenatally and postnatally by validated questionnaires. Two outcomes were evaluated: Presence of wheeze (at least one episode of child wheeze during the first 2 years of life); and recurrent wheeze (two or more episodes of wheezing in a 12-month period). Logistic regression was used to investigate the association between antenatal or postnatal psychosocial risk factors and child wheeze, adjusting for clinical and socio-demographic covariates. RESULTS Postnatal psychological distress and IPV were associated with both presence of wheeze (adjusted OR = 2.09, 95%CI: 1.16-3.77 and 1.63, 95%CI: 1.13-2.34, respectively), and recurrent child wheeze (adjusted OR = 2.26, 95%CI: 1.06-4.81 and 2.20, 95%CI: 1.35-3.61, respectively). CONCLUSION Maternal postnatal psychological distress and IPV were associated with wheezing in early childhood. Thus, screening and treatment programs to address maternal psychosocial risk factors may be potential strategies to reduce the burden of childhood wheeze in LMICs.
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- Rae P MacGinty
- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Medical Research Council Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders and Medical Research Council Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Wilson A, Chiu YHM, Hsu HHL, Wright RO, Wright RJ, Coull BA. Bayesian distributed lag interaction models to identify perinatal windows of vulnerability in children's health. Biostatistics 2018; 18:537-552. [PMID: 28334179 DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxx002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Epidemiological research supports an association between maternal exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and adverse children's health outcomes. Advances in exposure assessment and statistics allow for estimation of both critical windows of vulnerability and exposure effect heterogeneity. Simultaneous estimation of windows of vulnerability and effect heterogeneity can be accomplished by fitting a distributed lag model (DLM) stratified by subgroup. However, this can provide an incomplete picture of how effects vary across subgroups because it does not allow for subgroups to have the same window but different within-window effects or to have different windows but the same within-window effect. Because the timing of some developmental processes are common across subpopulations of infants while for others the timing differs across subgroups, both scenarios are important to consider when evaluating health risks of prenatal exposures. We propose a new approach that partitions the DLM into a constrained functional predictor that estimates windows of vulnerability and a scalar effect representing the within-window effect directly. The proposed method allows for heterogeneity in only the window, only the within-window effect, or both. In a simulation study we show that a model assuming a shared component across groups results in lower bias and mean squared error for the estimated windows and effects when that component is in fact constant across groups. We apply the proposed method to estimate windows of vulnerability in the association between prenatal exposures to fine particulate matter and each of birth weight and asthma incidence, and estimate how these associations vary by sex and maternal obesity status in a Boston-area prospective pre-birth cohort study.
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- Ander Wilson
- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health & Kravis Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health & Kravis Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health & Kravis Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Lee A, Leon Hsu HH, Mathilda Chiu YH, Bose S, Rosa MJ, Kloog I, Wilson A, Schwartz J, Cohen S, Coull BA, Wright RO, Wright RJ. Prenatal fine particulate exposure and early childhood asthma: Effect of maternal stress and fetal sex. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018; 141:1880-1886. [PMID: 28801196 PMCID: PMC5803480 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Revised: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND The impact of prenatal ambient air pollution on child asthma may be modified by maternal stress, child sex, and exposure dose and timing. OBJECTIVE We prospectively examined associations between coexposure to prenatal particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) and maternal stress and childhood asthma (n = 736). METHODS Daily PM2.5 exposure during pregnancy was estimated using a validated satellite-based spatiotemporally resolved prediction model. Prenatal maternal negative life events (NLEs) were dichotomized around the median (high: NLE ≥ 3; low: NLE < 3). We used Bayesian distributed lag interaction models to identify sensitive windows for prenatal PM2.5 exposure on children's asthma by age 6 years, and determine effect modification by maternal stress and child sex. RESULTS Bayesian distributed lag interaction models identified a critical window of exposure (19-23 weeks' gestation, cumulative odds ratio, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.03-1.26; per interquartile range [1.7 μg/m3] increase in prenatal PM2.5 level) during which children concomitantly exposed to prenatal PM2.5 and maternal stress had increased risk of asthma. No significant association was seen in children born to women reporting low prenatal stress. When examining modifying effects of prenatal stress and fetal sex, we found that boys born to mothers with higher prenatal stress were most vulnerable (19-21 weeks' gestation; cumulative odds ratio, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.15-1.41; per interquartile range increase in PM2.5). CONCLUSIONS Prenatal PM2.5 exposure during sensitive windows is associated with increased risk of child asthma, especially in boys concurrently exposed to elevated maternal stress.
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- Alison Lee
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
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Flanigan C, Sheikh A, DunnGalvin A, Brew BK, Almqvist C, Nwaru BI. Prenatal maternal psychosocial stress and offspring's asthma and allergic disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Exp Allergy 2018; 48:403-414. [PMID: 29331049 DOI: 10.1111/cea.13091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Revised: 12/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prenatal maternal stress may influence offspring's atopic risk through sustained cortisol secretion resulting from activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA), leading to Th2-biased cell differentiation in the foetus. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the relationship between prenatal maternal psychosocial stress and risk of asthma and allergy in the offspring. METHODS We searched 11 electronic databases from 1960 to 2016, searched the grey literature and contacted experts in the field. Type of stress indicator included mood disorders, anxiety, exposure to violence, bereavement and socio-economic problems occurring during pregnancy, both objectively and subjectively measured. We included all possible asthma and IgE-mediated allergy outcomes. We conducted random-effects meta-analyses to synthesize the data. RESULTS We identified 9779 papers of which 30 studies (enrolling >6 million participants) satisfied inclusion criteria. The quality of 25 studies was moderate, 4 were strong, and one was weak. Maternal exposure to any type of stressors was associated with an increased risk of offspring atopic eczema/dermatitis (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.22-1.47), allergic rhinitis (OR 1.30, 95% CI 1.04-1.62), wheeze (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.16-1.54) and asthma (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.04-1.27). Exposure to anxiety and depression had strongest effect compared to other stressors. Exposure during the third trimester had the greatest impact compared to first and second trimesters. The increased risk was stronger for early-onset and persistent than for late-onset wheeze. Bereavement of a child (HR 1.28, 95% CI 1.10-1.48) or a spouse (HR 1.40, 95% CI 1.03-1.90) increased the risk of offspring asthma. CONCLUSIONS Exposure to prenatal maternal psychosocial stress was associated with increased risk, albeit modestly, of asthma and allergy in the offspring. The pronounced risk during the third trimester may represent cumulative stress exposure throughout pregnancy rather than trimester-specific effect. Our findings may represent a causal effect or a result of inherent biases in studies, particularly residual confounding.
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- C Flanigan
- Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Cork University Hospital, Cork City, Ireland.,University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland.,School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.,Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Krefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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Bandoli G, von Ehrenstein O, Ghosh JKC, Flores MES, Dunkel Schetter C, Ritz B. Prenatal Maternal Stress and the Risk of Lifetime Wheeze in Young Offspring: An Examination by Stressor and Maternal Ethnicity. J Immigr Minor Health 2018; 18:987-995. [PMID: 26343048 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-015-0269-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Prenatal psychosocial stressors may increase the risk of wheeze in young offspring, yet little attention has been given to the effects that maternal ethnicity may have on this relationship. From a population-based cohort of 1193 children, we assessed the effect of maternal prenatal stressors on the risk of lifetime wheeze in young offspring. We further studied whether maternal Latina ethnicity modified these associations. The risk of wheeze in the offspring was increased from high levels of pregnancy anxiety (aRR 1.40, 95 % CI 1.07, 1.83), negative life events (aRR 1.36, 95 % CI 1.06, 1.75), or low paternal support (aRR 1.41, 95 % CI 1.02, 1.96). The risk of lifetime wheeze was stronger in the offspring of Latina mothers than of White mothers for these same stressors. Multiple maternal prenatal stressors are associated with increased risk of lifetime wheeze in young offspring, with slight effect modification by Latina ethnicity.
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- Gretchen Bandoli
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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Tedner SG, Lundholm C, Olsson H, Almqvist C. Depression or anxiety in adult twins is associated with asthma diagnosis but not with offspring asthma. Clin Exp Allergy 2017; 46:803-12. [PMID: 27228571 DOI: 10.1111/cea.12714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Asthma is common in both children and adults in the Western world, just like anxiety and depression. While some research has revealed that these diseases might share important environmental and pathophysiological aspects, the exact mechanisms still remain unclear. OBJECTIVE To study the correlation firstly between depression or anxiety and asthma diagnosis in adult twins and secondly the association between parental depression or anxiety and offspring asthma in children of twins. METHODS In total, 24 685 adult twins aged 20-47 years were interviewed or completed a Web-based questionnaire and their children were identified through the Multi-Generation Register. Asthma diagnosis was obtained from the Patient Register and the Prescribed Drug Register. Assessment of depression and anxiety was obtained from questionnaires using Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), major depression and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) from DSM-IV. The association between depression or anxiety and asthma was analyzed with logistic regression adjusting for confounders in twins and offspring. To address genetic and familial environmental confounding, we performed a cotwin analysis using disease-discordant twin pairs. RESULTS We found an association between asthma and CES-D, major depression and GAD, for example adjusted OR for major depression and register-based asthma 1.56 (1.36-1.79). Most of the point estimates remained in the co-twin control analysis, indicating that the association was likely not due to genetic or familial environmental factors. There was no association between parental depression and/or anxiety and asthma diagnosis in the offspring which implies lack of genetic confounding. CONCLUSIONS We found an association between own asthma diagnosis and anxiety or depression, but not with offspring asthma. Our results indicate that the associations were not due to confounding from genes or environment shared by the twins.
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- S G Tedner
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Lung and Allergy Unit, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Gur M, Hakim F, Bentur L. Better understanding of childhood asthma, towards primary prevention - are we there yet? Consideration of pertinent literature. F1000Res 2017; 6:2152. [PMID: 29333254 PMCID: PMC5749133 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.11601.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Asthma is a chronic disease, characterized by reversible airway obstruction, airway inflammation and hyper-reactivity. The prevalence of asthma has risen dramatically over the past decade, affecting around 300,000,000 people. The etiology is multifactorial, with genetic, epigenetic, developmental and environmental factors playing a role. A complex interaction between the intrauterine environment, the developing immune system, the infant's microbiome and infectious organisms may lead to the development of allergic sensitization and asthma. Thus, a large number of studies have investigated the risk factors for childhood asthma, with a meticulous search of modifiable factors that could aid in primary prevention. We present a current literature review from 2014-2017, as well as older classic publications, on the pathogenesis and the potential modifiable factors for primary prevention of asthma. No ideal preventive measure has yet been found. Rather, creating favorable prenatal and postnatal environments, minimal exposure to hostile environmental factors, prevention of infections in early life, allergic desensitization and nutritional modifications could possibly reduce asthma inception. In the era of personalized medicine, identifying individual risk factors and tailoring specific preventive measures is warranted.
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- Michal Gur
- Pediatric Pulmonary Institute and CF Center, Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
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- Pediatric Pulmonary Institute and CF Center, Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.,Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Pediatric Pulmonary Institute and CF Center, Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.,Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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Bose S, Chiu YHM, Hsu HHL, Di Q, Rosa MJ, Lee A, Kloog I, Wilson A, Schwartz J, Wright RO, Cohen S, Coull BA, Wright RJ. Prenatal Nitrate Exposure and Childhood Asthma. Influence of Maternal Prenatal Stress and Fetal Sex. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2017; 196:1396-1403. [PMID: 28661182 PMCID: PMC5736975 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201702-0421oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Impact of ambient pollution upon children's asthma may differ by sex, and exposure dose and timing. Psychosocial stress can also modify pollutant effects. These associations have not been examined for in utero ambient nitrate exposure. OBJECTIVES We implemented Bayesian-distributed lag interaction models to identify sensitive prenatal windows for the influence of nitrate (NO3-) on child asthma, accounting for effect modification by sex and stress. METHODS Analyses included 752 mother-child dyads. Daily ambient NO3- exposure during pregnancy was derived using a hybrid chemical transport (Geos-Chem)/land-use regression model and natural log transformed. Prenatal maternal stress was indexed by a negative life events score (high [>2] vs. low [≤2]). The outcome was clinician-diagnosed asthma by age 6 years. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Most mothers were Hispanic (54%) or black (29%), had a high school education or less (66%), never smoked (80%), and reported low prenatal stress (58%); 15% of children developed asthma. BDILMs adjusted for maternal age, race, education, prepregnancy obesity, atopy, and smoking status identified two sensitive windows (7-19 and 33-40 wk gestation), during which increased NO3- was associated with greater odds of asthma, specifically among boys born to mothers reporting high prenatal stress. Cumulative effects of NO3- across pregnancy were also significant in this subgroup (odds ratio = 2.64, 95% confidence interval = 1.27-5.39; per interquartile range increase in ln NO3-). CONCLUSIONS Prenatal NO3- exposure during distinct sensitive windows was associated with incident asthma in boys concurrently exposed to high prenatal stress.
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- Sonali Bose
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Department of Pediatrics
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- Department of Environmental Health and
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, BeerSheba, Israel
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- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; and
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- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and
- Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and
- Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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O'Connor GT, Lynch SV, Bloomberg GR, Kattan M, Wood RA, Gergen PJ, Jaffee KF, Calatroni A, Bacharier LB, Beigelman A, Sandel MT, Johnson CC, Faruqi A, Santee C, Fujimura KE, Fadrosh D, Boushey H, Visness CM, Gern JE. Early-life home environment and risk of asthma among inner-city children. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2017; 141:1468-1475. [PMID: 28939248 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.06.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2017] [Revised: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Environmental exposures in early life appear to play an important role in the pathogenesis of childhood asthma, but the potentially modifiable exposures that lead to asthma remain uncertain. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify early-life environmental risk factors for childhood asthma in a birth cohort of high-risk inner-city children. METHODS We examined the relationship of prenatal and early-life environmental factors to the occurrence of asthma at 7 years of age among 442 children. RESULTS Higher house dust concentrations of cockroach, mouse, and cat allergens in the first 3 years of life were associated with lower risk of asthma (for cockroach allergen: odds ratio per interquartile range increase in concentration, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.36-0.86; P < .01). House dust microbiome analysis using 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing identified 202 and 171 bacterial taxa that were significantly (false discovery rate < 0.05) more or less abundant, respectively, in the homes of children with asthma. A majority of these bacteria were significantly correlated with 1 of more allergen concentrations. Other factors associated significantly positively with asthma included umbilical cord plasma cotinine concentration (odds ratio per geometric SD increase in concentration, 1.76; 95% CI, 1.00-3.09; P = .048) and maternal stress and depression scores. CONCLUSION Among high-risk inner-city children, higher indoor levels of pet or pest allergens in infancy were associated with lower risk of asthma. The abundance of a number of bacterial taxa in house dust was associated with increased or decreased asthma risk. Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and higher maternal stress and depression scores in early life were associated with increased asthma risk.
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- George T O'Connor
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, Md
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Md
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo
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- Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis
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OBJECTIVES Exposure to child abuse (CA) is associated with an increased risk of developing asthma and allergies; it is unknown if that risk is present across generations. This study investigated if 2-year-old children born to mothers with a history of CA were at an increased risk of receiving a diagnosis of asthma or allergies. METHODS Data from 1,551 participants were collected as part of the All Our Babies (AOB) study, a prospective pregnancy cohort. During pregnancy, each woman provided information about her own history of CA, and at 24 months postpartum, she provided information about her child's medical diagnoses. Symptoms of maternal depression and anxiety were assessed during pregnancy and at 24 months postpartum. RESULTS Unadjusted models showed that compared to children born to mothers without a history of CA, 2-year-old children born to mothers with a history of CA were more likely to have had a diagnosis of asthma (7.4% vs 4.2%, p = .016) or allergy (15.6% vs 9.2%, p < .001). Maternal symptoms of depression assessed in late pregnancy and symptoms of depression and anxiety at 24 months postpartum were significant mediators of the relationship between maternal CA and 2-year-old asthma diagnosis. Maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety assessed in late pregnancy were also significant mediators of the relationship between maternal CA and 2-year-old allergy diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that maternal exposure to CA is associated with increased risk of asthma and allergy in their 2-year-old children; symptoms of maternal depression and anxiety were identified as pathways linking the variables.
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Rosa MJ, Just AC, Kloog I, Pantic I, Schnaas L, Lee A, Bose S, Chiu YHM, Hsu HHL, Coull B, Schwartz J, Cohen S, Téllez Rojo MM, Wright RO, Wright RJ. Prenatal particulate matter exposure and wheeze in Mexican children: Effect modification by prenatal psychosocial stress. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2017; 119:232-237.e1. [PMID: 28757229 DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2017.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Air pollution exposure in childhood is associated with greater incidence and exacerbation of asthma, particularly in children whose parents report high levels of psychological stress. However, this interaction has not been completely elucidated in pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To examine whether the association between prenatal exposure to particulate matter no larger than 2.5 μm in diameter (PM2.5) and wheeze in children is modified by prenatal stress. METHODS Mexican women were recruited during pregnancy (N = 552). Residential prenatal daily exposure to PM2.5 was estimated using a satellite-based spatiotemporally resolved prediction model and averaged over trimesters. Maternal stress was indexed by maternal negative life events (NLE) score (range 0-11) ascertained during mid to late pregnancy. NLE scores were dichotomized at the median as low (NLE score ≤ 3) and high (NLE score > 3) stress. Reports of ever wheeze and wheeze in the past 12 months (current wheeze) for children were obtained using the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood survey at 48 months. The association between prenatal PM2.5 and wheeze was analyzed using a modified Poisson regression and stratified by low vs high stress. RESULTS Greater PM2.5 exposure during the first trimester was associated with increased risk of current wheeze among children with mothers reporting high prenatal stress (relative risk 1.35, 95% confidence interval 1.00-1.83, per interquartile range increase 3.8 μg/m3) but not among those reporting low stress (relative risk 0.84, 95% confidence interval 0.61-1.16, per interquartile range increase 3.8 μg/m3; P for interaction = .04). CONCLUSION Increased prenatal stress enhanced the association between PM2.5 exposure in early pregnancy, and child wheeze at 48 months of age. It is important to consider chemical and nonchemical stressors together to more comprehensively characterize children's environmental risk.
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- Maria José Rosa
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Research in Community Interventions, National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
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Association of prenatal and early childhood stress with reduced lung function in 7-year-olds. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2017; 119:153-159. [PMID: 28668548 DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2017.05.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND No prior study has examined associations between prenatal and early-life stress on childhood lung function or identified critical windows of exposure. OBJECTIVE To prospectively examine associations between prenatal and early-life stress and childhood lung function. METHODS Stress was indexed by a maternal negative life events (NLEs) score ascertained during pregnancy and between 1 and 2 years post partum. Spirometry was performed when children were a mean (SD) of 6.99 (0.89) years old. Associations of prenatal and early postnatal stress with spirometry z scores were examined in 199 children using linear regression. Effect modification by child sex was explored. RESULTS Most mothers were minorities (65% Hispanic, 21% African American), had 12 years or less of education (67%), and did not smoke prenatally (78%). The highest level of prenatal stress (≥5 NLEs) was associated with lower levels of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) (z score = -0.53, P = .03), forced vital capacity (FVC) (z score = -0.49, P = .04), and forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF25%-75%) (z score = -0.68, P = .01) after covariate adjustment; effects were similar for postnatal stress considered separately. In sex-stratified analyses, high postnatal stress (≥5 NLEs) was associated with lower FEV1 (z score = -0.76, P = .01), FVC (z score = -0.77, P = .01), and FEF25%-75% (z score = -0.67, P = .02) in boys but not girls, although the interaction term was not significant (P for interaction >.10). CONCLUSION These are the first prospective data that link perinatal stress with reduced child lung function. High levels of stress in the prenatal and postnatal periods were associated with symmetric reductions in FEV1 and FVC consistent with impaired lung growth. Given that lung function growth patterns are established by 7 years of age, these findings have lifelong implications.
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Happle C, Jirmo AC, Meyer-Bahlburg A, Habener A, Hoymann HG, Hennig C, Skuljec J, Hansen G. B cells control maternofetal priming of allergy and tolerance in a murine model of allergic airway inflammation. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2017; 141:685-696.e6. [PMID: 28601684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.03.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 02/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Allergic asthma is a chronic lung disease resulting from inappropriate immune responses to environmental antigens. Early tolerance induction is an attractive approach for primary prevention of asthma. OBJECTIVE We analyzed the mechanisms of perinatal tolerance induction to allergens, with particular focus on the role of B cells in preconception and early intrauterine immune priming. METHODS Wild-type (WT) and B cell-deficient mice received ovalbumin (OVA) intranasally before mating. Their offspring were analyzed in a murine model of allergic airway inflammation. RESULTS Although antigen application before conception protected WT progeny from allergy, it aggravated allergic airway inflammation in B cell-deficient offspring. B-cell transfer restored protection, demonstrating the crucial role of B cells in perinatal tolerance induction. Effective diaplacentar allergen transfer was detectable in pregnant WT mice but not in pregnant B-cell knockout dams, and antigen concentrations in WT amniotic fluid (AF) were higher than in IgG-free AF of B cell-deficient dams. Application of OVA/IgG immune complexes during pregnancy boosted OVA uptake by fetal dendritic cells (DCs). Fetal DCs in human subjects and mice expressed strikingly higher levels of Fcγ receptors compared with DCs from adults and were highly efficient in taking up OVA/IgG immune complexes. Moreover, murine fetal DCs effectively primed antigen-specific forkhead box P3+ regulatory T cells after in vitro coincubation with OVA/IgG-containing AF. CONCLUSION Our data support a decisive role for B cells and immunoglobulins during in utero tolerance priming. These findings improve the understanding of perinatal immunity and might support the development of effective primary prevention strategies for allergy and asthma in the future.
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- Christine Happle
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany; Department of Pediatrics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany
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- Working Group for Airway Pharmacology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
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Letourneau NL, Kozyrskyj AL, Cosic N, Ntanda HN, Anis L, Hart MJ, Campbell TS, Giesbrecht GF. Maternal sensitivity and social support protect against childhood atopic dermatitis. ALLERGY, ASTHMA, AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY 2017; 13:26. [PMID: 28559916 PMCID: PMC5446757 DOI: 10.1186/s13223-017-0199-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many studies have identified associations between qualities of maternal-child relationships and childhood asthma, but few have examined associations with childhood atopic dermatitis (AD), a common precursor to asthma. Moreover, maternal psychological distress, including prenatal and postnatal depression, anxiety and stress, may increase risk, while social support from partners may reduce risk for childhood AD. We sought to uncover the association between maternal-infant relationship qualities (maternal sensitivity towards infant behavioral signals, controlling behavior, and unresponsiveness) and child AD after accounting for risk (i.e., prenatal and postnatal maternal depression, anxiety and stress) and protective (i.e., social support) factors. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected on a subsample of 242 women and their infants enrolled during pregnancy in the ongoing Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition cohort study. Inclusion criteria required mothers to be >16 years of age, English speaking and <22 weeks gestational age at enrollment. Data on depression, anxiety and stress in the prenatal and postnatal periods and physician diagnosis of childhood AD at 18 months were gathered via maternal report. Maternal sensitivity, unresponsiveness and controlling behaviours were assessed via videotaped observations using the Child-Adult Relationship Experimental (CARE)-Index at 6 months of infant age. RESULTS Higher maternal sensitivity, or the inability of the mother to appropriately understand and respond to infant needs based on behavioral signals, predicted reduced odds of AD independent of and in combination with low prenatal and postnatal anxiety and high paternal support. After adjustment, higher maternal controlling behaviours and unresponsiveness also predicted greater odds of AD. CONCLUSIONS Low maternal sensitivity is a risk factor for childhood AD, independently and in combination with perinatal anxiety and low social support. Thus, interventions that improve maternal-infant relationship quality, especially sensitivity, reduce anxiety and improve social support from partners could reduce odds of childhood AD.
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- Nicole L. Letourneau
- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3 Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics & Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Departments of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3 Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics & Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
- Child Development Centre, ACHRI Owerko Centre, 3rd Floor, 2888 Shaganappi Trail, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8 Canada
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Hippocampal NR3C1 DNA methylation can mediate part of preconception paternal stress effects in rat offspring. Behav Brain Res 2017; 324:71-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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DeVries A, Vercelli D. The neonatal methylome as a gatekeeper in the trajectory to childhood asthma. Epigenomics 2017; 9:585-593. [PMID: 28322586 DOI: 10.2217/epi-2016-0149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Asthma is a heterogeneous group of conditions that typically begin in early life and result in recurrent, reversible bronchial obstruction. The role played by epigenetic mechanisms in the pathogenesis of childhood asthma is understood only in part. Here we discuss asthma epigenetics within a developmental perspective based on our recent demonstration that the epigenetic trajectory to childhood asthma begins at birth. We next discuss how this trajectory may be affected by prenatal environmental exposures. Finally, we examine in vitro studies that model the impact of asthma-associated exposures on the epigenome. All of these studies specifically surveyed human DNA methylation and involved a genome-wide component. In combination, their results broaden our understanding of asthma pathogenesis and the role the methylome plays in this process.
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- Avery DeVries
- Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.,Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.,Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.,Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.,The Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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El-Heis S, Crozier SR, Healy E, Robinson SM, Harvey NC, Cooper C, Inskip HM, Baird J, Godfrey KM. Maternal stress and psychological distress preconception: association with offspring atopic eczema at age 12 months. Clin Exp Allergy 2017; 47:760-769. [PMID: 28218994 DOI: 10.1111/cea.12910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Revised: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Perinatal maternal stress and low mood have been linked to offspring atopic eczema. OBJECTIVES To examine the relation of maternal stress/mood with atopic eczema in the offspring, focusing particularly on stress/psychological distress preconception. METHODS At recruitment in the UK Southampton Women's Survey, preconception maternal reports of perceived stress in daily living and the effect of stress on health were recorded; in a subsample, psychological distress was assessed (12-item General Health Questionnaire). Infants were followed up at ages 6 (n = 2956) and 12 (n = 2872) months and atopic eczema ascertained (based on UK Working Party Criteria for the Definition of Atopic Dermatitis). At 6 months post-partum, mothers were asked if they had experienced symptoms of low mood since childbirth and completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. RESULTS Preconception perceived stress affecting health [OR 1.21 (95% CI 1.08-1.35), P = 0.001] and stress in daily living [OR 1.16 (1.03-1.30), P = 0.014] were associated with an increased risk of offspring atopic eczema at age 12 months but not at 6 months, robust to adjustment for potentially confounding variables. Findings were similar for maternal psychological distress preconception. Low maternal mood between delivery and 6 months post-partum was associated with an increased risk of infantile atopic eczema at age 12 months, but no significant association between post-natal mood and atopic eczema was seen after taking account of preconception stress. CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Our data provide novel evidence linking maternal stress at preconception to atopic eczema risk, supporting a developmental contribution to the aetiology of atopic eczema and pointing to potentially modifiable influences.
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- S El-Heis
- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Dermatopharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.,NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.,Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Ramratnam SK, Visness CM, Jaffee KF, Bloomberg GR, Kattan M, Sandel MT, Wood RA, Gern JE, Wright RJ. Relationships among Maternal Stress and Depression, Type 2 Responses, and Recurrent Wheezing at Age 3 Years in Low-Income Urban Families. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2017; 195:674-681. [PMID: 27654103 PMCID: PMC5363974 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201602-0272oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Maternal depression and prenatal and early life stress may influence childhood wheezing illnesses, potentially through effects on immune development. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that maternal stress and/or depression during pregnancy and early life are associated with recurrent wheezing and aeroallergen sensitivity and altered cytokine responses (enhanced type 2 or reduced virus-induced cytokine responses) from stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells at age 3 years. METHODS URECA (Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma) is a birth cohort at high risk for asthma (n = 560) in four inner cities. Maternal stress, depression, and childhood wheezing episodes were assessed by quarterly questionnaires beginning at birth. Logistic and linear regression techniques were used to examine the relation of maternal stress/depression to recurrent wheezing and peripheral blood mononuclear cell cytokine responses at age 3 years. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Overall, 166 (36%) children had recurrent wheeze at age 3 years. Measures of maternal perceived stress at Years 2 and 3 were positively associated with recurrent wheeze (P < 0.05). Maternal depression (any year) was significantly associated with recurrent wheezing (P ≤ 0.01). These associations were also significant when considered in a longitudinal analysis of cumulative stress and depression (P ≤ 0.02). Neither stress nor depression was significantly related to aeroallergen sensitization or antiviral responses. Contrary to our original hypothesis, prenatal and Year 1 stress and depression had significant inverse associations with several type 2 cytokine responses. CONCLUSIONS In urban children at high risk for asthma, maternal perceived stress and depression were significantly associated with recurrent wheezing but not increased atopy or reduced antiviral responses.
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- Sima K. Ramratnam
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Kravis Children’s Hospital and Mindich Child Health & Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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