Journal article
Maternal stress and social support prospectively predict infant inflammation
BW Nelson, DB Wright, NB Allen, HK Laurent
Brain Behavior and Immunity | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 2020
Abstract
Maternal stress has been suggested to be a risk factor for offspring health, while social support has been shown to be a protective factor for offspring functioning. Currently, research has yet to investigate how both of these factors may relate to infant inflammatory processes and associated biological aging in the first years of life. In 48 mother-infant dyads, we investigated whether maternal parenting stress and social support when infants were 12 and 18 months of age were cross-sectionally associated with infant salivary C-reactive protein (sCRP) during these times. In addition, we investigated whether parenting stress and social support were prospectively associated with later sCRP and..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported by grants from The Mind and Life Institute (1440 Research Award 2015-1440-Nelson) awarded to the first author and The Society for Research in Child Development Victoria Levin Award and the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences issued to the last author. The funding sources had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, or submission process. We thank Elissa Epel, Ph.D. for her consultation on our study design and Jue Line, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. for their expertise in assaying the telomere samples. We also thank Elizabeth Shirtcliff, Ph.D. for her expertise in assaying the c-reactive protein samples.