It pointed to the continued presence of fragile fixed - income market liquidity as a
key vulnerability in the overall financial system, while it repeats the risks of a sharp increase in long - term interest rates, stress from
emerging markets like China and prolonged weakness in commodity prices.
Numerous studies suggest that maternal stress experienced in utero influences programming of
key physiological systems that contribute to childhood disease57 and that nonoptimal early childhood environments and caregiving experiences also influence these processes.58 - 61 Specifically,
emerging data implicate the disruptive impact of stress on the HPA, autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune systems.1, 3,7,57,62 Disruptions of these stress regulatory systems may, in turn, be linked to immune dysregulation, increasing
vulnerability to the development of diseases such as asthma.