Emma Fransson
Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Medical psychology and care science
- E-mail:
- emma.fransson@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My research focus on mental and reproductive health with the objective to identify biomarkers for perinatal complications including preterm birth and poor mental health.
Keywords
- human microbiome
- inflammation
- postpartum depression
- preterm birth
Research
Ongoing projects
3PAD - investigating neurophysiological measures as predictors of perinatal depression
https://www.kbh.uu.se/forskning/obstetrisk-och-reproduktiv-halsoforskning/huvudforskningsomraden-och-projekt/3pad/
Mom2B - a mobile application study for prediction of depressive symptoms and preterm birth, www.mom2b.se
SweMaMi (Karolinska Institutet) - a study to investigate maternal microbiome and perinatal complications.
www.swemami.se
Publications
Selection of publications
- Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study (2024)
- Feeling better? - Identification, interventions, and remission among women with early postpartum depressive symptoms in Sweden (2024)
- Who do we miss when screening for postpartum depression? (2021)
- Psychoneuroimmunology in the context of perinatal depression (2021)
- Inflammatory markers in women with postpartum depressive symptoms (2020)
- Maternal perinatal depressive symptoms trajectories and impact on toddler behavior (2020)
Recent publications
- Investigations of microbiota composition and neuroactive pathways in association with symptoms of stress and depression in a cohort of healthy women (2024)
- Association of Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy and Perinatal Depression (2024)
- Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms (2024)
- School children's perceptions about being offered the HPV vaccination (2024)
- Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Investigations of microbiota composition and neuroactive pathways in association with symptoms of stress and depression in a cohort of healthy women (2024)
- Association of Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy and Perinatal Depression (2024)
- Mid-pregnancy allopregnanolone levels and trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms (2024)
- School children's perceptions about being offered the HPV vaccination (2024)
- Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study (2024)
- Remission or Persistence? (2024)
- Feeling better? - Identification, interventions, and remission among women with early postpartum depressive symptoms in Sweden (2024)
- Antibiotic or gastric acid inhibitor use during pregnancy and postpartum depression (2024)
- Compositional and functional differences of the vaginal microbiota of women with and without cervical dysplasia (2024)
- Inflammatory biomarkers and perinatal depression (2024)
- Interactions of Perinatal Depression versus Anxiety and Infants' Early Temperament Trajectories (2024)
- Pre-pregnancy complications-associated factors and wellbeing in early pregnancy (2023)
- Autonomic function and inflammation in pregnant women participating in a randomized controlled study of Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting (2023)
- Cohort profile (2023)
- Mom2B: a study of perinatal health via smartphone application and machine learning methods (2022)
- Predicting perinatal health outcomes using smartphone-based digital phenotyping and machine learning in a prospective Swedish cohort (Mom2B) (2022)
- Longitudinal assessment of inflammatory markers in the peripartum period by depressive symptom trajectory groups (2022)
- Cohort profile (2022)
- Differentiated mental health patterns in pregnancy during COVID-19 first two waves in Sweden (2022)
- The vaginal microbiome and the risk of preterm birth (2022)
- Metabolite trajectories across the perinatal period and mental health (2022)
- Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and toddler behavior (2022)
- Alcohol consumption habits and associations with anxiety or depressive symptoms postpartum in women with high socioeconomic status in Sweden (2022)
- Working Memory During Late Pregnancy (2022)
- Psychotropic medication use in parents of survivors of adolescent cancer (2022)
- Importance of living arrangements and coparenting quality for young children's mental health after parental divorce (2021)
- Dysbiosis of the Human Oral Microbiome During the Menstrual Cycle and Vulnerability to the External Exposures of Smoking and Dietary Sugar (2021)
- Who do we miss when screening for postpartum depression? (2021)
- Metabolic Profiling Indicates Diversity in the Metabolic Physiologies Associated With Maternal Postpartum Depressive Symptoms (2021)
- A MicroRNA Gene Panel Predicts the Vaginal Microbiota Composition (2021)
- Psychoneuroimmunology in the context of perinatal depression (2021)
- Living arrangements after parental separation have minimal impact on mental health at age 7 years. (2021)
- Birth order and socioeconomic disadvantage predict behavioural and emotional problems at age 3 years (2021)
- Mental Health in Schoolchildren in Joint Physical Custody (2021)
- Heart rate variability in late pregnancy (2021)
- Maternal and Infant Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction (2021)
- DNA methylation in cord blood in association with prenatal depressive symptoms (2021)
- Family Background Characteristics and Student Achievement: (2021)
- No evidence for a placental microbiome in human pregnancies at term (2021)
- Associations Between Maternal Depression, Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes (2021)
- Migraine as a risk factor for mixed symptoms of peripartum depression and anxiety in late pregnancy (2021)
- Severe obstetric lacerations associated with postpartum depression among women with low resilience (2020)
- Inflammatory markers in women with postpartum depressive symptoms (2020)
- Vaginal microbiota and human papillomavirus infection among young Swedish women (2020)
- Maternal perinatal depressive symptoms trajectories and impact on toddler behavior (2020)
- Child living arrangements following separation and mental health of parents in Sweden (2020)
- Increased risk of mental health problems after cancer during adolescence (2020)
- Assessment of In Vitro and In Silico Protocols for Sequence-Based Characterization of the Human Vaginal Microbiome (2020)
- Characteristics of women with different perinatal depression trajectories (2020)
- Cohort profile (2019)
- Children with two homes (2019)
- "We also communicate through a book in the diaper bag"-Separated parents' ways to coparent and promote adaptation of their 1-4 year olds in equal joint physical custody (2019)
- Abstract # 3143 Inflammatory markers in postpartum depression (2019)
- Clinicians' attitudes toward standardized assessment and diagnosis within child and adolescent psychiatry (2019)
- Spring peaks and autumn troughs identified in peripheral inflammatory markers during the peripartum period (2019)
- Preschool children living in joint physical custody arrangements show less psychological symptoms than those living mostly or only with one parent (2018)
- Circulating Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Levels in Mothers and Preterm and Term Newborn Infants. (2018)
- The Living Conditions of Children with Shared Residence – the Swedish Example (2018)
- What Can We Say Regarding Shared Parenting Arrangements for Swedish Children? (2018)
- Low levels of anti-secretory factor in placenta are associated with preterm birth and inflammation. (2018)
- School effectiveness and truancy (2018)
- National data study showed that adolescents living in poorer households and with one parent were more likely to be bullied (2017)
- Inflammatory markers in late pregnancy in association with postpartum depression-A nested case-control study. (2017)
- The preterm cervix reveals a transcriptomic signature in the presence of premature prelabor rupture of membranes. (2017)
- Self-esteem in children in joint physical custody and other living arrangements (2017)
- Why should they live more with one of us when they are children to us both? (2016)
- Psychological complaints among children in joint physical custody and other family types (2016)
- Fifty moves a year (2015)
- Childhood Experience of Parental Separation Is Associated With Labor IL-6 in Maternal Serum (2015)
- Mental health in Swedish children living in joint physical custody and their parents' life satisfaction (2014)
- Living in two homes-a Swedish national survey of wellbeing in 12 and 15 year olds with joint physical custody (2013)
- Negative emotions and cytokines in maternal and cord serum at preterm birth (2012)
- Antenatal depressive symptoms and preterm birth (2011)
- High-mobility group box protein 1 and its signalling receptors in human preterm and term cervix (2010)
- Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in human preterm and term cervical ripening (2010)
Conferences
- Sociodemographic inequalities in adolescents’ health-related behaviours (2016)
- Inequalities in subjective health complaints in Swedish adolescents (2016)
- Exploring salivary cortisol and recurrent pain in mid-adolescents living in two homes (2014)
- Gene Expression Pattern in Cervix during Spontaneous Preterm Labor. (2013)
- Parents’ experiences of preterm birth (2010)
- Altered Balance in Pro-Inflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Preterm Cervical Ripening (2009)