Maternal bereavement and childhood asthma-analyses in two large samples of Swedish children.

Prenatal factors such as prenatal psychological stress might influence the development of childhood asthma.We assessed the association between maternal bereavement shortly before and during pregnancy, as a proxy for prenatal stress, and the risk of childhood asthma in the offspring, based on two sam...

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Main Authors: Fang Fang, Caroline Olgart Höglund, Petra Arck, Cecilia Lundholm, Niklas Långström, Paul Lichtenstein, Mats Lekander, Catarina Almqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3210147?pdf=render