Early Life Stress, Growth and Neurodevelopment in Childhood
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Follow up studies of children with congenital heart disease, premature birth, small for gestational age syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder show significantly reduced 24-hours heart rate variability (HRV) that indicate autonomic dysfunction. The underlying pathophysiological process is of high clinical importance if autonomic dysfunction in these children is related to neurocognitive impairment, an enhanced cardiovascular risk, and a higher risk of short stature. Elevated norepinephrine levels, reduced HRV and MRI imaging indicate brain injury very early in life. We introduce the term autonomic imprinting to explain how early life stress have a lifelong imprinting effect on the autonomic nervous system. Many efforts are done for a careful management of infants in pediatric intensive care units. However, early life stress cannot be prevented if sympathetic activation is part of the underlying disease most of all due to congestive heart failure. We could demonstrate that beside a careful management, pharmacotherapy has a high impact on autonomic dysfunction in children with heart failure, attention deficit disorder and short stature. Moreover, online HRV monitoring is a complete noninvasive tool to monitor early life stress if it uses the data from routine heart rate monitoring. HRV online monitoring on the pediatric intensive care unit and Holter ECG monitoring in a daily life setting are clinical routine in our department for each pharmacotherapy affecting the autonomic nervous system. In the same time as monitoring of early life stress becomes clinically routine, the situation of children will improve if we realize which interventions increase early life stress or improve its detrimental damages in longtime follow up.
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BUCHHORN, Reiner.
Early Life Stress, Growth and Neurodevelopment in Childhood.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 8, n. 10, oct. 2020.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/2260>. Date accessed: 19 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v8i10.2260.
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16. Luu TM, Rehman Mian MO, Nuyt AM. Long-Term Impact of Preterm Birth: Neurodevelopmental and Physical Health Outcomes. Clinics in perinatology. 2017;44(2):305-14. doi:10.1016/j.clp.2017.01.003.
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26. Gruber EM, Laussen PC, Casta A, Zimmerman AA, Zurakowski D, Reid R et al. Stress response in infants undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized study of fentanyl bolus, fentanyl infusion, and fentanyl-midazolam infusion. Anesthesia and analgesia. 2001;92(4):882-90.
27. Dimitrijevic L, Bjelakovic B, Colovic H, Mikov A, Zivkovic V, Kocic M et al. Assessment of general movements and heart rate variability in prediction of neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants. Early human development. 2016;99:7-12. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2016.05.014.
28. Goulding RM, Stevenson NJ, Murray DM, Livingstone V, Filan PM, Boylan GB. Heart rate variability in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: correlation with EEG grade and 2-y neurodevelopmental outcome. Pediatr Res. 2015;77(5):681-7.
29. von Rhein M, Buchmann A, Hagmann C, Huber R, Klaver P, Knirsch W et al. Brain volumes predict neurodevelopment in adolescents after surgery for congenital heart disease. Brain : a journal of neurology. 2014;137(Pt 1):268-76. doi:10.1093/brain/awt322.
30. Miller SP, McQuillen PS, Hamrick S, Xu D, Glidden DV, Charlton N et al. Abnormal brain development in newborns with congenital heart disease. The New England journal of medicine. 2007;357(19):1928-38. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa067393.
31. Schiller RM, H IJ, Madderom MJ, Rietman AB, Smits M, van Heijst AFJ et al. Neurobiologic Correlates of Attention and Memory Deficits Following Critical Illness in Early Life. Crit Care Med. 2017;45(10):1742-50. doi:10.1097/ccm.0000000000002553.
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33. Botellero VL, Skranes J, Bjuland KJ, Haberg AK, Lydersen S, Brubakk AM et al. A longitudinal study of associations between psychiatric symptoms and disorders and cerebral gray matter volumes in adolescents born very preterm. BMC pediatrics. 2017;17(1):45. doi:10.1186/s12887-017-0793-0.
34. Kumar R, Yadav SK, Palomares JA, Park B, Joshi SH, Ogren JA et al. Reduced regional brain cortical thickness in patients with heart failure. PloS one. 2015;10(5):e0126595. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126595.
35. Woo MA, Kumar R, Macey PM, Fonarow GC, Harper RM. Brain injury in autonomic, emotional, and cognitive regulatory areas in patients with heart failure. Journal of cardiac failure. 2009;15(3):214-23. doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.10.020.
36. Rosch KS, Crocetti D, Hirabayashi K, Denckla MB, Mostofsky SH, Mahone EM. Reduced subcortical volumes among preschool-age girls and boys with ADHD. Psychiatry research Neuroimaging. 2018;271:67-74. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.10.013.
37. Suffren S, Angulo D, Ding Y, Reyes P, Marin J, Hernandez JT et al. Long-term attention deficits combined with subcortical and cortical structural central nervous system alterations in young adults born small for gestational age. Early human development. 2017;110:44-9. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.04.016.
38. Wei L, Chen H, Wu GR. Heart rate variability associated with grey matter volumes in striatal and limbic structures of the central autonomic network. Brain research. 2018;1681:14-20. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2017.12.024.
39. Willaschek C, Meint S, Rager K, Buchhorn R. Modified Clonidine Testing for Growth Hormone Stimulation Reveals alpha2-Adrenoreceptor Sub Sensitivity in Children with Idiopathic Growth Hormone Deficiency. PLoS ONE. 2015;10(9):e0137643.
40. Wulsin LR, Horn PS, Perry JL, Massaro JM, D'Agostino RB. Autonomic Imbalance as a Predictor of Metabolic Risks, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Mortality. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015;100(6):2443-8.
41. Manhardt LB, Norozi K, Muller C, Willaschek C, Kostuch B, Buchhorn R. NT-Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Infants with Failure to Thrive due to Caloric Deprivation. Int J Pediatr. 2010;2010:983468.
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