Publications by authors named "Roozemeria Pereira Costa"
Plasma and breast milk adipokines in women across the first year postpartum and their association with maternal depressive symptoms and infant neurodevelopment: Protocol for the APPLE prospective cohort study.
PLoS One
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- Adiponectin and leptin are key hormones that impact the brain's function, particularly during the critical postpartum period for mothers and their infants, affecting maternal mood and infant development.
- * The study aims to investigate how levels of adiponectin and leptin in mothers’ blood and breast milk relate to infant neurodevelopment at 6 and 12 months old and maternal mental health during the first year postpartum.
- * A prospective cohort study is underway, having recruited 68 out of 95 mother-infant pairs as of September 2023, focusing on various factors like maternal depression, infant growth, and nutritional habits to improve healthcare strategies for mothers and infants.*
High-risk newborns are exposed to neonatal conditions such as prematurity, very low birth weight, and congenital malformations that can affect development and behavior. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) restraint and control measures have been identified as important stressor events and cumulative risk factors for behavioral changes in these children. This study examined social isolation-related factors that contribute to internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in children already at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Our aim was to analyse 12-month outcomes of children who were prenatally exposed to the Zika virus and asymptomatic at birth.
Methods: This was an observational, exploratory study of infants exposed to the Zika virus during gestation and born between March 2016 and April 2017 without congenital Zika syndrome. They were followed until the age of 22 months.
The main goal of this manuscript was to investigate the neurodevelopment of children exposed by Zika virus in the intrauterine period who are asymptomatic at birth. Newborns with documented Zika virus exposure during the intrauterine period who were asymptomatic at birth were followed in the first two years of life for neurodevelopment using Bayley III test. Children were classified as having normal or delayed neurodevelopment for age based on most recent Bayley III evaluation results.
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