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Tamar Krishnamurti1, Alexander L Davis2, Hyagriv N Simhan3
1Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Meyran Avenue, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States.
Psychosocial stress may influence pregnancy health. We examined the relationship between worry about pregnancy health and pre-eclampsia. General stress, mental health, and self-reported pregnancy health worry were measured in a study of 10,037 U.S. nulliparous women. Logistic regression found a dose-response relationship between first trimester pregnancy-health worry and subsequent pre-eclampsia onset, controlling for health history (Beta = 0.40, SE = 0.09, P < 1 × 10-6). A machine learning regularized regression found a significant relationship between worry and pre-eclampsia onset, controlling for all other potential predictors of pre-eclampsia measured at baseline, suggesting that worry plays a unique role in pre-eclampsia risk.
Psychosocial stress may influence pregnancy health. We examined the relationship between worry about pregnancy health and pre-eclampsia. General stress, mental health, and self-reported pregnancy health worry were measured in a study of 10,037 U.S. nulliparous women. Logistic regression found a dose-response relationship between first trimester pregnancy-health worry and subsequent pre-eclampsia onset, controlling for health history (Beta = 0.40, SE = 0.09, P < 1 × 10-6). A machine learning regularized regression found a significant relationship between worry and pre-eclampsia onset, controlling for all other potential predictors of pre-eclampsia measured at baseline, suggesting that worry plays a unique role in pre-eclampsia risk.
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