Maternal-child adrenocortical attunement in early childhood: Continuity and change.

Prenatal Maternal Cortisol

Background:

This study evaluated continuity and change in maternal-child hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis attunement in early childhood. Participants were drawn from a prospective study of 1,292 mother-child dyads, which were racially diverse, predominantly low-income, and non-urban.