Preterm Birth and Stressful Life Events
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Exploration of threshold analysis in the relation between stressful life events and preterm delivery.
Biologic evidence suggests that the hormones activated by stress affect gestational length, but the results of epidemiologic investigations are inconsistent. The authors of this paper know of no threshold models that have been studied; these models assume that stress does not affect preterm delivery until a certain amount of stress has been experienced but that each unit of stress above the thr...
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