Early maternal perceived stress and children's BMI: longitudinal impact and influencing factors

• Main Authors: Beate Leppert (Author), Kristin M. Junge (Author), Stefan Röder (Author), Michael Borte (Author), Gabriele I. Stangl (Author), Rosalind J. Wright (Author), Anja Hilbert (Author), Irina Lehmann (Author), Saskia Trump (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Maternal perceived stress has been discussed to contribute to the development of childhood overweight. Our aim was to investigate the longitudinal relationship of early maternal perceived stress and BMI z-scores in preschool children (≤ five years). Methods A longitudinal analysi...