Sentences with phrase «identifying high risk pregnancies»

Common work activities of a Midwife include examining pregnant women, conducting screening tests, offering advice, answering inquiries, helping with pain management, and identifying high risk pregnancies.

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or if you have been identified as a high risk pregnancy, you should consider weaning your child once you know you are pregnant.

«By identifying individuals at higher risk of developing complications during pregnancy and therefore long - term diseases, appropriate interventions can be implemented to improve outcomes.»

«Our study sought to discover if there are other risk factors or clues that may help identify the women with preeclampsia who are at the highest risk for pregnancy - related stroke.

She added that women with a diagnosis of endometriosis should be counselled about the higher risks of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy in the first trimester, «which warrants increased monitoring by ultrasound scans, and greater vigilance to identify potential complications such as bleeding and preterm delivery.»

«Being better able to identify women at high risk of miscarriage may allow for improved monitoring and management of these pregnancies.»

This database will serve as a basis for a future larger study to identify susceptible subpopulations at higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes.

«By taking pictures of abdominal fat in early pregnancy using ultrasound during routine clinical visits, we could identify women with high levels of abdominal fat who may be at risk of developing gestational diabetes later on,» said De Souza.

«Up to 60 per cent of women will start their pregnancy overweight, many women are having children at an older age, and most people have a family member with Type 2 diabetes, so traditional risk factors are starting to apply to more and more people, which prevent us from properly identifying those at a high risk.»

Offering a standard biomarker test earlier in pregnancy could potentially help doctors to better identify women at risk of giving birth prematurely, thus enabling health services to focus treatments on women at highest risk, according to a new study led by King's College London.

(1) Similarly, ART singletons and ART twins also had comparable test scores, suggesting, say the investigators, that «the higher obstetric risk» identified in ART pregnancies — and particularly in twins — «is not associated with poorer academic performance in adolescence.»

Several of the most commonly identified risk factors in previous research were identified in this study, including being male, membership in a single - parent or stepfamily, 5 high levels of parent - reported childhood activity, 23,24 maternal mental health problems, 25 and a history of teenage parenthood.26 What is relatively novel about this report is the consideration of the joint effects of psychosocial risk factors, while controlling for multiple indicators of social class and the assessment of both accidents and illnesses in a large community sample followed prospectively since pregnancy.