Associations between maternal mental health and early child wheezing in a South African birth cohort

Rae MacGinty; Maia Lesosky; Whitney Barnett; Dan Joseph Stein; Heather J. Zar

doi:10.1002/ppul.24008

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Maternal postnatal psychological distress and IPV were associated with wheezing in early childhood. Thus, screening and treatment programs to address maternal psychosocial risk factors may be potential strategies to reduce the burden of childhood wheeze in LMICs.

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