Higher Maternal Cortisol Associated With Lower Blood Pressure in Offspring From 3 Months to 5 Years of Age in the Odense Child Cohort.
Hypertension
; 80(4): 828-836, 2023 04.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Synthetic glucocorticoid exposure in late pregnancy may be associated with higher blood pressure in offspring. We hypothesized that endogenous cortisol in pregnancy relates to offspring blood pressure (OBP).OBJECTIVE:
To investigate associations between maternal cortisol status in third trimester pregnancy and OBP.METHODS:
We included 1317 mother-child pairs from Odense Child Cohort, an observational prospective cohort. Serum (s-) cortisol and 24-hour urine (u-) cortisol and cortisone were assessed in gestational week 28. Offspring systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were measured at age 3, 18 months, and 3 and 5 years. Associations between maternal cortisol and OBP were examined by mixed effects linear models.RESULTS:
All significant associations between maternal cortisol and OBP were negative. In boys in pooled analyses, 1 nmol/L increase in maternal s-cortisol was associated with average decrease in systolic blood pressure (ß=-0.003 mmHg [95% CI, -0.005 to -0.0003]) and diastolic blood pressure (ß=-0.002 mmHg [95% CI, -0.004 to -0.0004]) after adjusting for confounders. At 3 months of age, higher maternal s-cortisol was significantly associated with lower systolic blood pressure (ß=-0.01 mmHg [95% CI, -0.01 to -0.004]) and diastolic blood pressure (ß=-0.010 mmHg [95% CI, -0.012 to -0.011]) in boys after adjusting for confounders, which remained significant after adjusting for potential intermediate factors.CONCLUSIONS:
We found temporal sex dimorphic negative associations between maternal s-cortisol levels and OBP, with significant findings in boys. We conclude that physiological maternal cortisol is not a risk factor for higher blood pressure in offspring up to 5 years of age.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Efectos Tardíos de la Exposición Prenatal
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Hipertensión
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Hipotensión
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
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Revista:
Hypertension
Año:
2023
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Article