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. 2024 Feb 6;10(3):e25578. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25578

Table 3.

Association between 5 stress scales and F2-isoprostanes (African American and White mothers).

African American women
Stress Scales Isoprostane 8 Channel
β (SE), p-value
Isoprostane 2,3 Channel
β (SE), p-value
Isoprostane 6,12 Channel
β (SE), p-value
ACEs 0.18 (0.10), p = 0.082 0.16 (0.07), p = 0.024 0.11 (0.12), p = 0.351
Financial Stress 0.06 (0.04), p = 0.875 −0.01 (0.03), p = 0.699 −0.06 (0.03), p = 0.079
Depression 0.05 (0.02), p = 0.042 0.05 (0.02), p = 0.014 0.02 (0.03), p = 0.465
Social Support −0.02 (0.03), p = 0.575 0.08 (0.02), p = 0.728 −0.04 (0.04), p = 0.286
Anxiety 0.08 (0.04), p = 0.041 0.04 (0.03), p = 0.134 0.03 (0.05), p = 0.489
White women
Stress Scales Isoprostane 8 Channel
β (SE), p-value
Isoprostane 2,3 Channel
β (SE), p-value
Isoprostane 6,12 Channel
β (SE), p-value
ACES 0.05 (0.07), p = 0.414 0.08 (0.06), p = 0.202 0.03 (0.10), p = 0.972
Financial Stress −0.07 (0.02), p = 0.971 0.02 (0.02), p = 0.900 −0.05 (0.02), p = 0.050
Depression −0.05 (0.02), p = 0.978 0.04 (0.02), p = 0.774 −0.08 (0.02), p = 0.740
Social Support −0.05 (0.02), p = 0.040 −0.06 (0.02), p = 0.004 −0.07 (0.03), p = 0.061
Anxiety −0.08 (0.03), p = 0.738 −0.09 (0.02), p = 0.690 −0.03 (0.04), p = 0.517

N = 50 pregnant women (25 African American and 25 White. Linear regression models were fit to investigate associations between five prenatal psychosocial stressors and three creatinine-adjusted F2-isoprostane channels in African American and White women. These models were adjusted for cigarette smoking during pregnancy, education level, and race/ethnicity. No p-values were significant for interaction by race (range from 0.06 to 0.94). Two-sample t-tests were completed for these analyses.