Sentences with phrase «pregnancies than in the control»

Copeptin levels were significantly higher throughout the preeclamptic pregnancies than in the control pregnancies.

Not exact matches

Like pregnancy, combination hormonal birth control methods increase the risk of serious blood clots (see graph below), especially in women who have other risk factors, such as smoking, obesity, or age greater than 35.

The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act provides that unless a physician can establish that he «reasonably believes» an unborn child is younger than 24 weeks, or, if the child is older, he can establish that continuing the pregnancy will result in either the death of the mother or «the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,» the physician can not perform a late - term abortion.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

Smoking during pregnancy and initiating prenatal care after the first trimester were also more prevalent in mothers of cases than in mothers of controls.

And if you're pregnant now, try to keep your weight gain under control: A 2004 study tied pregnancy weight gain of more than 33 pounds to breast cancer later in life.

That is, one in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime and more recognized pregnancies end in abortion than in miscarriage, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the Guttmacher Institute.

Sagawa and colleagues compared mice whose mothers had received 30 % fewer calories during pregnancy with normal controls and found that the underweight pups experienced a shift in timing: the normal increase in blood leptin a week earlier than usual.

In years past, pregnancy was also a contraindication to flu vaccine but, today, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends flu vaccine for women more than 14 weeks pregnant.

In all, the study found that 68 percent of mothers had used birth control pills, but stopped more than three months before pregnancy, and 21 percent had never used them.

However, the reduction in insulin sensitivity is more pronounced during pregnancy than during diestrus (122), and the alteration in the metabolic control of growth hormone during gestation may in some way be pregnancy - specific in dogs (123).

Comprehensive intervention also scored higher in condom use knowledge; believed more strongly that condoms can prevent pregnancy, STDs and HIV; believed more strongly that using condoms will not interfere with sexual enjoyment; expressed greater confidence that they could have condoms available when they needed them; and reported greater confidence that they could exercise sufficient impulse control to use condoms and greater self - efficacy for using condoms than did those in the control group.

The hormones in the patch are the same ones in most birth control pills, which have been used to safely prevent pregnancy for more than 50 years.

«Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of family planning and birth control in America, and we do more than any organization to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce the need for abortion.

Results indicate during the 2 - decade period following registration in this trial, women enrolled in the 2 nurse - visited groups were less likely to have died than women assigned to the control group, and by age 20 years, children whose mothers received home visits during pregnancy and through child age 2 years were less likely to have died from preventable causes compared with their counterparts in the control group.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

The adolescents who received the BPBR intervention believed more strongly that practicing abstinence would prevent, pregnancy, STDs, and AIDS (p <.0001, p =.04, p =.04), expressed less favorable attitudes toward sexual intercourse (p <.0001, p <.0001, p <.0001), and reported weaker intentions of having sexual intercourse over the next three months (F (1, 144) = 7.58) than did those in the control group.

«In 2013, Planned Parenthood health centers provided more than 2 million birth control appointments, 1 million pregnancy tests, and 900,000 cancer screenings.»

In a meta - analysis of 70 published studies (including 9,957 children and parents, and a core set of 51 randomized controlled trials with 6,282 mothers and children), Bakermans - Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn & Juffer8 demonstrated that the most effective attachment - based interventions to improve parent sensitivity (d = 0.33, p <.001) and promote secure infant - caregiver attachment (d = 0.20, p <.001) included the following characteristics: (1) a clear and exclusive focus on behavioural training for parent sensitivity rather than a focus on sensitivity plus support, or a focus on sensitivity plus support plus internal representations (e.g. individual therapy); (2) the use of video feedback; (3) fewer than five sessions (fewer than five sessions were as effective as five to 16 sessions, and 16 sessions or more were least effective); (4) a later start, i.e. after the infant is six months or older (rather than during pregnancy or before age six months); and (5) conducted by non-professionals.