Maternal Age at Holocaust Exposure and Maternal PTSD Independently Influence Urinary Cortisol Levels in Adult Offspring

Maternal Age at Holocaust Exposure and Maternal PTSD Independently Influence Urinary Cortisol Levels in Adult Offspring

Endocrinology

Heather N Bader, Linda M Bierer, Amy Lehrner, Iouri Makotkine, Nikolaos P Daskalakis, Rachel Yehuda

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Vol. 4

2014

Journal article

English

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Parental traumatization has been associated with increased risk for the expression of psychopathology in offspring, and maternal posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appears to increase the risk for the development of offspring PTSD. In this study, Holocaust-related maternal age of exposure and PTSD were evaluated for their association with offspring ambient cortisol and PTSD-associated symptom expression

Kristen Walker