Study shows a relationship between the anxiety of generating a child during a war and miscarriage, children’s diseases and the death of the fetus.
A team of investigators analyzed the Impact of armed conflicts on pregnancy and concluded that there is a relationship between anxiety to generate a child during a war and abortions spontaneous, illnesses Children and death of the fetus.
This work from a team from the University of Granada (UGR), published in the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal, is based on a sample of 664,980 pregnant women and their newborns from different countries around the world.
To conduct the study, Rafael A. Caparrós González, a researcher at the UGR Nursing Department, and his team conducted a systematic review of 1,512 studies.
“O intrauterine period It is a period of maximum vulnerability for the embryo and the fetus, and maternal ‘stress’ levels are closely related to brain development and other organs, ”explained Caparrós.
Currently, the number of wars reached its pico higher From World War IIwith 56 active conflicts in the world and 92 countries involved.
The investigator stressed that the Mother’s psychological stress during pregnancy can cross the placenta and Baby under development within the womb.
“It is a highly complex mechanism, made possible by several paths, all originating in high levels of ‘stress’ during pregnancy. The maternal psychological stress can change the levels of several biomarkers, Like the stress hormone cortisol, or various neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, ”he added.
A maternal exposure to war is associated with short and long -term health problems in babiesincluding a higher risk of prematurity, low birth weight and greater risk of premature death.
In the long run, there is a higher risk of babies to develop brain disturbances up to 15 years after birth, such as schizophrenia or hyperactivity, as well as hypertension arterial or more disabled neurological development, which in some cases is linked to disorders of the spectrum of the autism e neuroses.
