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Relations between pregnancy risk, infant growth and cognition
Author(s) -
Miner Jessica,
Kennedy Tay,
Colaizzi Janna,
Tisdale Ashlee,
Thomas David G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.840.16
Subject(s) - pregnancy , medicine , pediatrics , obstetrics , cognition , cognitive development , early pregnancy factor , gestation , psychiatry , genetics , biology
Visual information processing, heart rate attention and growth were assessed in 132 infants at 3, 6 and 9 months of age. The infants’ mothers were predominately white, well‐educated and married; and all infants were predominately breastfed at 3 months of age. There were three groups of infants based on changes in attention termination and encoding speed over the study period. Pregnancy risk was assessed using a standardized questionnaire and risk scores were developed based on maternal response when the infants were 3 months of age. Performance did not differ between groups based on scores associated with pre‐pregnant health (p = .07); pregnancy health problems (p=.21) or late term pregnancy complications (p=.96). The three groups were significantly different in weight for length z‐ scores at 3 months of age (p= .006). In conclusion, cogitative performance on these tasks did not differ based on maternal health just prior to or during pregnancy but did differ based on early growth in this low‐risk sample.