The role of maternal cardiac vagal control in the association between depressive symptoms and gestational hypertension.

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dc.contributor.authorGiesbrecht, Gerald
dc.contributor.authorRouleau, Codie, R.
dc.contributor.authorTomfohr- Madsen, Lianne, M.
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Tavis, S.
dc.contributor.authorLetourneau, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorO'Beirne, Maeve
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-01T21:30:14Z
dc.date.available2016-12-01T21:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.descriptionAuthor's accepted manuscript deposited according to Elsevier sharing policies: http://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/policy-faq (December 1st, 2016)en_US
dc.description.abstractReduced cardiac vagal control, indexed by relatively lower high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), is implicated in depressed mood and hypertensive disorders among non-pregnant adults whereas research in pregnancy is limited. This study examined whether maternal HF-HRV during pregnancy mediates the association between depressed mood and gestational hypertension. Depressive symptoms (Edinburgh Depression Scale) and HF-HRV were measured during early (M = 14.9 weeks) and late (M = 32.4 weeks) pregnancy in 287 women. Gestational hypertension was determined by chart review. Depressive symptoms were associated with less HF-HRV (b = -0.02, p =.001). There was an indirect effect of depressed mood on gestational hypertension through late pregnancy HF-HRV (b = 0.04, 95% CI 0.0038, 0.1028) after accounting for heart rate. These findings suggest cardiac vagal control is a possible pathway through which prenatal depressed mood is associated with gestational hypertension, though causal ordering remains uncertain.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationRouleau, C. R., Tomfohr, L. M., Campbell, T. S., Letourneau, N., O’Beirne, M., *Giesbrecht, G.F. & the APrON Study Team. (2016). The role of maternal cardiac vagal control in the association between depressive symptoms and gestational hypertension. Biological Psychology, 117, 32-42.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/33674
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51763
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.publisher.corporateUniversity of Calgary
dc.publisher.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/en_US
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectcardiac vagal controlen_US
dc.subjecthigh-frequency heart rate variabilityen_US
dc.subjectheart rateen_US
dc.subjectdepressive symptomsen_US
dc.subjectgestational hypertensionen_US
dc.subjectpregnancyen_US
dc.titleThe role of maternal cardiac vagal control in the association between depressive symptoms and gestational hypertension.en_US
dc.typejournal article
thesis.degree.disciplinePaediatrics
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