Higher maternal socioeconomics offer little protection against toxic prenatal stress

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cnh-hms012720.php

News Release 29-Jan-2020
Children's National Hospital

When pregnant women experience elevated anxiety, stress or depression, these prenatal stressors can alter the structure of the developing fetal brain and disrupt its biochemistry - even if these women have uncomplicated pregnancies and high socioeconomic status, according to Children's National Hospital research published online Jan. 29, 2020, in JAMA Network Open.

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