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Prenatal Maternal Stress Predicts Cord-blood Ferritin Concentration by Rinat Armony-Sivan; Shraga Aviner; Lutzy Cojocaru; Shlomo Fytlovitch; Dora Ben-Alon; Anat Eliassy; Harvey Babkoff; Betsy Lozoff; Eyal Anteby is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract **Aim:** To examine the relationship between maternal stress in early pregnancy and cord-blood ferritin concentration. **Methods:** The sample consisted of 140 pregnant women who lived in a region that was under rocket attack during a military operation (December 2008 to January 2009). Mothers in the stress group (n=63) were in their first trimester during this period. Mothers in the control group (n=77) became pregnant 4–5 months after the attacks ended. Maternal subjective stress was reported retrospectively. Cord-blood ferritin concentration was compared between stress and control groups, and was the dependent variable in a hierarchical multiple regression analysis. **Results:** The mean cord-blood ferritin concentration was lower in the stress group compared to the control group (145.7±62.0 vs. 169.3±85.4 ng/mL, P<0.05). The cumulative distribution of cord-blood ferritin showed a shift to the left for the stress group. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that maternal subjective stress was a predictor for cord-blood ferritin concentration (hierarchical regression: β=–0.18, P<0.05), especially in the stress group (simple slope analysis: β=–0.32, P<0.01

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Author

Rinat Armony-Sivan; Shraga Aviner; Lutzy Cojocaru; Shlomo Fytlovitch; Dora Ben-Alon; Anat Eliassy; Harvey Babkoff; Betsy Lozoff; Eyal Anteby

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2012

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)