Table 3. Associations (odds ratios) between maternal prenatal stressors and Hypertension in the child at age five-seven (N = 2968).
| Model 1 | Model 2 | |||
| OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | |
| Hypertension‡ | ||||
| Depressive symptomsa | 1.02 | (1.00;1.03) | 1.00 | (0.98;1.02) |
| State anxietya | 1.02** | (1.01;1.04) | 1.01 | (1.00;1.03) |
| Pregnancy-related anxietya | 1.05** | (1.02;1.09) | 1.02 | (0.99;1.06) |
| Parenting daily hassles Ħa | 1.01 | (0.98;1.05) | 1.00 | (0.97;1.03) |
| Job strainb | ||||
| Low job strain (reference) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No job | 1.2 | (0.7;1.9) | 0.8 | (0.5;1.3) |
| Moderate job strain | 1.1 | (0.7;1.7) | 1.1 | (0.7;1.7) |
| High job strain | 1.0 | (0.6;1.7) | 0.9 | (0.5;1.6) |
| Cumulative stress scorec | ||||
| No stress (reference) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 Stressor | 1.5** | (1.0;2.0) | 1.4 | (1.0;2.0) |
| 2 Stressors | 0.8 | (0.5;1.4) | 0.7 | (0.4;1.1) |
| 3–4 Stressors | 2.3** | (1.2;4.2) | 1.7 | (0.9;3.4) |
**
p<0.05.
*
To model 1, sex, height and age of the child at measurement were added as covariates.
†
To model 2, additionally added covariates are: maternal and paternal (family) hypertension, maternal age, ethnicity, pre-pregnancy BMI, educational level, primiparity, maternal hypertension, smoking, alcohol consumption, gestational age, birth weight and BMI child.
‡
The definition of hypertension was sex, height and age-specific: therefore, these covariates were not added.
Ħ Only analyzed in women already parenting (N = 1,302).