Maternal mental stress ‘can impair brain’ of fetus with CHD
Maternal distress linked to smaller cerebellar and hippocampal volume in fetuses with heart anomalies
Psychological distress is common among pregnant women carrying fetuses with congenital heart disease (CHD) and is associated with impaired fetal brain development, new research indicates.
In a longitudinal case-control study, researchers studied 48 pregnant women carrying fetuses with CHD and 92 healthy volunteers with low-risk pregnancies.
