The New York Times (10/21, Bakalar) reports, “A mother’s psychological distress during pregnancy may increase the risk for asthma in her child,” investigators concluded in a study that “had the parents of 4,231 children fill out well-validated questionnaires on psychological stress in the second trimester of pregnancy, and again three years later.” When their offspring “were 10 years old, parents reported whether their child had ever been diagnosed with asthma.” The findingswere published online in the journal Thorax.
Related Links:
— “Depression in Pregnancy May Raise Risk of Childhood Asthma “Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times, October 21, 2020