title: Prenatal and postnatal inflammation in relation to cortisol levels in preterm infants at 18 months corrected age.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether early inflammation is related to cortisol levels at 18 months corrected age (CA) in children born very preterm.
  
  
  METHODS
  Infants born ≤ 32 weeks of gestational age were recruited in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and placental histopathology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and chart review were obtained. At 18 months CA, developmental assessment and collection of three salivary cortisol samples were carried out. Generalized least squares was used to analyze data from 85 infants providing 222 cortisol samples.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Infants exposed to chorioamnionitis with funisitis had a significantly different pattern of cortisol across the samples compared with infants with chorioamnionitis alone or no prenatal inflammation (F(4, 139)=7.3996, P<0.0001). Postnatal infections, necrotizing enterocolitis and chronic lung disease were not significantly associated with the cortisol pattern at 18 months CA.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In children born very preterm, prenatal inflammatory stress may contribute to altered programming of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health, Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gover
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chau
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brant
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: McFadden
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Poskitt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Synnes
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weinberg
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Grunau
mesh_terms: D002821:Chorioamnionitis / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000097:blood*; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000502:physiology; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000097:blood*; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000097:blood*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000097:blood*; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010913:Pituitary-Adrenal System / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D006854:Hydrocortisone
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