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Abstract: Introduction: Antenatal anxiety is one of the most common problems during pregnancy.Identifying the effective factors in reducing antenatal anxiety is one of the ways to mitigate the neg-ative consequences.Objective: The present study aimed to determine the association between maternal lifestyle and an-tenatal anxiety.Methods: This is an analytical-cross-sectional study, and its study population included 201 eligiblepregnant women referred to Al-Zahra Hospital in Rasht. A convenience sampling method was used.Data collection tools included the Demographic and obstetrics questionnaire, The Health PromotingLifestyle Profile (HPLP), and the standard pregnancy-related anxiety questionnaire (PRAQ). Dataanalysis was performed using statistical tests including the Spearman correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney test, and Kruskal-Wallis in SPSS. A P<0.05 was considered significant.Results: Data analysis showed that the mean score of maternal lifestyle and antenatal anxiety was67.8 ± 10.9 and 43.2 ± 20.1, respectively. There was a weak significant negative correlation be-tween antenatal anxiety scores and the total maternal lifestyle score (r= - 0.204, P= 0.004). The re-sults of the multiple linear regression analysis also showed that with an increase in the total score ofmaternal lifestyles, the antenatal anxiety score decreases significantly after controlling the Demo-graphic and obstetrics variable. That is, with a unit increase in the total lifestyle score, the total anx-iety score decreases on average by 0.20 units (b= 0.20, P= 0.004).Conclusions: A weak but significant negative correlation exists between maternal lifestyle and an-tenatal anxiety, indicating that higher lifestyle scores are associated with lower anxiety levels. Thus,healthcare providers can play an important role in alleviating antenatal anxiety through lifestyle ed-ucation, positively impacting maternal well-being