Directly from the USA: Prenatal Psychological Distress Linked to Earlier Adrenarche in Girls
Fetal exposure to maternal psychological distress is associated with earlier adrenarche among girls, especially first-born girls, according to research published in the February issue of Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Molly M. Fox, Ph.D., from the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues examined whether fetal exposure to maternal psychological distress is related to children’s adrenarche and gonadarche schedules in a longitudinal study involving 253 mother-child dyads followed for 15 years.
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