Open AccessPost-term birth as a response to environmental stress: The case of September 11, 2001
Author(s) -
C. E. Margerison-Zilko,
Joel Goodman,
E Anderson,
Alison Gemmill,
Ralph Catalano
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
evolution medicine and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2050-6201
DOI - 10.1093/emph/eov001
Subject(s) - term (time) , stress (linguistics) , environmental stress , environmental science , physics , philosophy , environmental protection , linguistics , quantum mechanics
Despite growing interest in the role of maternal psychosocial stress as a determinant of preterm birth, no existing work has examined the relation between maternal stress and post-term birth (≥42 weeks). We hypothesize that prolonging gestation past term may represent an adaptive strategy to a suboptimal environment.
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