Prenatal Stress due to a Natural Disaster Predicts Adiposity in Childhood: The Iowa Flood Study

• Main Authors: Kelsey N. Dancause (Author), David P. Laplante (Author), Kimberly J. Hart (Author), Michael W. O'Hara (Author), Guillaume Elgbeili (Author), Alain Brunet (Author), Suzanne King (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Prenatal stress can affect lifelong physical growth, including increased obesity risk. However, human studies remain limited. Natural disasters provide models of independent stressors unrelated to confounding maternal characteristics. We assessed degree of objective hardship and subjective distress...