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Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study

Matvienko-Sikar, Karen; O' Neill, Kate; Fraser, Abigail; Hayes, Catherine; Howe, Laura; Huizink, Anja C; Kearney, Patricia M; Khasan, Ali; Redsell, Sarah; O'Keefe, Linda M

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Authors

Karen Matvienko-Sikar

Kate O' Neill

Abigail Fraser

Catherine Hayes

Laura Howe

Anja C Huizink

Patricia M Kearney

Ali Khasan

SARAH REDSELL SARAH.REDSELL@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Childrens' Community and Public Health

Linda M O'Keefe



Abstract

Objectives: Quantifying long-term offspring cardiometabolic health risks associated with maternal prenatal anxiety and depression can guide cardiometabolic risk prevention. This study examines associations between maternal prenatal anxiety and depression, and offspring cardiometabolic risk from birth to 18 years.

Design: This study uses data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort.

Participants: Participants were 526-8,606 mother-offspring pairs from the ALSPAC cohort.

Setting: British birth cohort set, Bristol, UK.

Primary and secondary outcomes: Exposures were anxiety (Crown-Crisp Inventory score) and depression (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score) measured at 18 and 32 weeks gestation. Outcomes were trajectories of offspring body mass index; fat mass; lean mass; pulse rate; glucose, diastolic and systolic blood pressure; triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and insulin from birth/early childhood to 18 years. Exposures were analysed categorically using clinically relevant, cut-offs and continuously to examine associations across the distribution of prenatal anxiety and depression.

Results: We found no strong evidence of associations between maternal anxiety and depression, and offspring trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors. Depression at 18 weeks was associated with higher SBP at age 18 (1.62 mmHg (95% CI, 0.17, 3.07). Anxiety at 18 weeks was also associated with higher DBP at 7 years in unadjusted analyses (0.70 mmHg (95% CI, 0.02, 1.38); this difference persisted at age 18 years (difference at 18 years; 0.89 mmHg (95% CI, 0.05, 1.73). No associations were observed for body mass index; fat mass; lean mass; pulse rate; glucose; triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and insulin.

Conclusions: This is the first examination of maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of offspring cardiometabolic risk. Our findings suggest that prevention of maternal prenatal anxiety and depression may have limited impact on offspring cardiometabolic health across the first two decades of life.

Citation

Matvienko-Sikar, K., O' Neill, K., Fraser, A., Hayes, C., Howe, L., Huizink, A. C., …O'Keefe, L. M. (2022). Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 11(12), Article e051681. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051681

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 17, 2021
Online Publication Date Dec 15, 2021
Publication Date Aug 15, 2022
Deposit Date Nov 22, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal BMJ Open
Electronic ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher BMJ
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 11
Issue 12
Article Number e051681
DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051681
Keywords Anxiety; Depression; Cardiometabolic Risk; Pregnancy: Child Trajectories
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/6782388
Publisher URL https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/12/e051681.info

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