Maternal infections during pregnancy and child cognitive outcomes

Autor: Janell Kwok, Hildigunnur Anna Hall, Aja Louise Murray, Michael Vincent Lombardo, Bonnie Auyeung
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2393
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05188-8
Popis: Abstract Background Maternal prenatal infections have been linked to children’s neurodevelopment and cognitive outcomes. It remains unclear, however, whether infections occurring during specific vulnerable gestational periods can affect children’s cognitive outcomes. The study aimed to examine maternal infections in each trimester of pregnancy and associations with children’s developmental and intelligence quotients. The ALSPAC birth cohort was used to investigate associations between maternal infections in pregnancy and child cognitive outcomes. Methods Infection data from mothers and cognition data from children were included with the final study sample size comprising 7,410 mother-child participants. Regression analysis was used to examine links between maternal infections occurring at each trimester of pregnancy and children’s cognition at 18 months, 4 years, and 8 years. Results Infections in the third trimester were significantly associated with decreased verbal IQ at age 4 (p
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