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Effect of maternal stress during pregnancy on the risk for preterm birth

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, January 2016
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Title
Effect of maternal stress during pregnancy on the risk for preterm birth
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12884-015-0775-x
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Caroline Lilliecreutz, Johanna Larén, Gunilla Sydsjö, Ann Josefsson

Abstract

Preterm birth defined as birth prior to 37 weeks of gestation is caused by different risk factors and implies an increased risk for disease and early death for the child. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of maternal stress during pregnancy on the risk of preterm birth. A case-control study that included 340 women; 168 women who gave birth preterm and 172 women who gave birth at term. Data were manually extracted from standardized medical records. If the medical record contained a psychiatric diagnosis or a self-reported stressor e.g., depression or anxiety the woman was considered to have been exposed to stress during pregnancy. Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) was used to calculate the attributable risk (AR) of maternal stress during pregnancy on preterm birth, both for the women exposed to stress during pregnancy (AR1 = (AOR-1)/AOR) and for the whole study population (AR2 = AR1*case fraction). Maternal stress during pregnancy was more common among women who gave birth preterm compared to women who gave birth at term (p <0.000, AOR 2.15 (CI = 1.18-3.92)). Among the women who experienced stress during pregnancy 54 % gave birth preterm with stress as an attributable risk factor. Among all of the women the percentage was 23 %. Stress seems to increase the risk of preterm birth. It is of great importance to identify and possibly alleviate the exposure to stress during pregnancy and by doing so try to decrease the preterm birth rate.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 329 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 53 16%
Student > Master 42 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 12%
Researcher 21 6%
Student > Postgraduate 17 5%
Other 48 14%
Unknown 110 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 61 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 47 14%
Psychology 26 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 4%
Other 49 15%
Unknown 120 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 90. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2023.
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#445,976
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Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#58
of 4,582 outputs
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#8,149
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#3
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