Associations between socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and urinary levels of 8-iso-prostaglandin-F2 α during pregnancy in Puerto Rico.

CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial stress during pregnancy, as indicated by self-reported questionnaire measures, was not associated with biomarkers of oxidative stress in the PROTECT study. However, results suggest that these biomarkers are elevated among women of lower SES, which is typically associated with stress. Notably, compared to other populations, self-reported psychosocial stress measures were lower in PROTECT compared to other populations.
PMID: 31369838 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Free Radical Biology and Medicine - July 28, 2019 Category: Biology Authors: Eick SM, Meeker JD, Brown P, Swartzendruber A, Rios-McConnell R, Shen Y, Milne GL, Velez-Vega C, Rosario Z, Alshawabkeh A, Cordero JF, Ferguson KK Tags: Free Radic Biol Med Source Type: research