ArticlePloS one2021
Impact of maternal prenatal stress by glucocorticoids on metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes in their offspring: A systematic scoping review.
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- Pooled it
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- Acute maternal stress in pregnancy and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescent offspring: a birth-cohort study.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Single Antenatal Exposure to Ciclesonide Reduces Long-Term Cardiac Structural and Functional Alterations Compared to Currently Approved Synthetic Corticosteroids.Research square · 2026Article
- Prenatal stress, intimate partner violence and maternal cortisol trajectories: insights from a prospective birth cohort from São Paulo, Brazil.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Environmental Determinants of Pediatric Obesity: An Epidemiological Review.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Innovative mitochondria-based holistic 3PM approach to female health status: Facts and outlook.The EPMA journal · 2026Article
- Developmental programming: gestational exposure to excess testosterone disrupts maternal steroid homeostasis and perturbs the steroid-lipid relationship in sheep.Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2026Article
- [Development of an LC-MS/MS method for 32 steroid hormones and exploration of their gestational variations].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2026Article
- Joint and Independent Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Depression With Childhood Obesity.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Early pregnancy depressive symptoms and severe maternal morbidity.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2026Article
- The association between early-life famine exposure and hypertension risk in adulthood and its interaction with dietary inflammatory index among Chinese adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- The roles, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications of glucocorticoids in glucose and lipid metabolism.Military Medical Research · 2026Review
- Elevated cortisol concentration in preterm sheep fetuses impacts heart development.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Mechanistic Pathways of Gestational Obesity: Implications for Maternal and Offspring Health: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Behavioural predictability in chickens in response to anxiogenic stimuli is influenced by maternal corticosterone levels during egg formation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Investigating Aging and DNA Methylation: A Path to Improving Health Span?The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2025Review
- One Size Does Not Fit All: The Need for Sex-Specific Precision Medicine in Diabetes Technology.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2025Article
- Postpartum Maternal Stress is Unrelated to the Infant Fecal Microbiome, but is Associated With the Human Milk Microbiome in Exclusively Breastfeeding Mother-Infant Dyads: The Mother-Infant Microbiomes, Behavior, and Ecology Study (MIMBES).American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
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Abstract
background"Stress" is an emerging problem in our society, health care system as well as patient care, worldwide. Especially by focusing on pre-gestational, gestational but also lactation phases "stress" is to be considered as an own trans-generational risk factor which is associated with adverse metabolic as well cardiovascular outcomes in mothers and their children. Hence, the maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenotrophic (HPA) axis may be stimulated by various "stress" mechanisms as well as risk factors leading to an adverse in utero environment, e.g. by excess exposure of glucocorticoids, contributing to cardio-metabolic disorders in mothers and their offspring.
objectiveTo review the evidence of in utero programming by focusing on the impact of maternal "stress", on adverse cardio-metabolic outcomes on their offspring later in life, by identifying underlying (patho-) physiological mechanisms (1) as well as adverse short and long-term cardio-metabolic outcomes (2).
methodsWe conducted a systematic scoping review to identify publications systematically including reviews, interventional, observational, experimental studies as well as human and animal model studies. MEDLINE (PubMed) and EMBASE databases and reference lists were searched. Peer-reviewed articles from January 2000 until August 2020 were included.
resultsOverall, n = 2.634 citations were identified, n = 45 eligible studies were included and synthesized according to their key findings. In brief, maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenotrophic (HPA) axis might play a key role modifying in utero milieu leading to cardio-metabolic diseases in the offspring later in life. However, maternal risk factor "stress", is clearly linked to adverse cardio-metabolic offspring outcomes, postnatally, such as obesity, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus (DM), Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), cardiovascular disease (CD), hypertension, restricted fetal growth as well as reduced birth, adrenal, and pancreas weights.
conclusionsWomen who experienced "stress" as risk factor, as well as their offspring, clearly have a higher risk of adverse short- as well as long-term cardio-metabolic outcomes. Future research work is needed to understand complex transgenerational mechanisms.
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