Stress during pregnancy could affect the baby’s chance of developing multiple diseases – News-Medical.Net

Stress on an expectant mother could affect her baby’s chance of developing disease – perhaps even over the course of the child’s life, UC researchers have found.
Psychosocial factors creating stress — such as lack of social support, loneliness, marriage status or bereavement — may be mutating their child’s mitochondrial DNA and could be a precursor to a host of diseases, according to a University of Cincinnati study.
“There are a lot of conditions that start in childhood that have ties to mitochondrial…

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