Associations of salivary aldosterone levels during pregnancy with maternal blood pressure and birth weight-for-gestational age in a Mexico City birth cohortShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Journal of Perinatology, ISSN 0743-8346, E-ISSN 1476-5543, Vol. 44, no 5, p. 643-649Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
ObjectiveTo determine associations of maternal salivary aldosterone with blood pressure (BP) in pregnancy and infant birth weight-for-gestational age (BWGA).MethodsWe measured maternal salivary aldosterone, BP and BWGA z-scores in 471 Mexico City pregnancy cohort participants and performed multivariable linear regression of BP and BWGA on log-aldosterone levels.ResultsLog-aldosterone was positively associated with diastolic BP (beta = 0.12 95% CI: 0.04, 0.21). There were no main effects of log-aldosterone on BWGA. However, we detected an interaction between log-aldosterone and BP in association with BWGA; higher log-aldosterone was associated with lower BWGA in the lowest (beta = -0.12, 95% CI: -0.26, 0.02) and highest (beta = -0.12, 95% CI: -0.29, 0.06) BP tertiles. In contrast, in the middle BP tertile the association was positive (beta = 0.09, 95% CI: -0.02, 0.20), p for interaction = 0.03.ConclusionHigher maternal salivary aldosterone is positively associated with diastolic BP and may affect fetal growth differently depending on concurrent maternal blood pressure.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2024. Vol. 44, no 5, p. 643-649
Keywords [en]
plasma-volume expansion, growth-factor, renin, risk, system, fetal, hypertension
National Category
Endocrinology and Diabetes
Research subject
Public Health Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-99026DOI: 10.1038/s41372-024-01909-3ISI: 001180193500002PubMedID: 38443464Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186597073OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-99026DiVA, id: diva2:1847127
2024-03-262024-03-262024-07-09Bibliographically approved