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Maternal Prenatal Psychosocial Stress and Prepregnancy BMI Associations with Fetal Iron Status
1 Feb 2020
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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...
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