NIH R01 · 2024
Prenatal programming of child asthma and respiratory health is potentially influenced by maternal exposures, such as a woman’s lifetime stress, although mechanisms of this biologic embedding have not been fully delineated. Emerging evidence suggests that exposure to trauma can be a particularly robust potentiator of biological events that increase vulnerability to asthma in offspring and may help explain increased risk found in lower-income urban U.S. populations. Lower-income BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) women experience traumas over their lifetime at rates above national U.S. samples. Research from our group has shown that lifetime exposure to traumatic stressors in women,…
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