Sentences with phrase «pregnancy at an older age»

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When a woman conceives at age 35 or older, she has a higher risk of developing high - risk pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes or preeclampsia.

While standardisation was performed for six principal covariates (gender, gestational age < 37 weeks, smoking in pregnancy, older siblings, maternal education, and maternal age at time of birth), there were several other potential covariates.

The potential confounders that were adjusted in the analyses were gender (male: female), gestational age (< 37 weeks: ≥ 37 weeks), smoking in pregnancy (yes at 18 weeks and / or 34 weeks gestation: no), older siblings (yes: no), maternal education (< 16 years education: ≥ 16 years of education), and maternal age at the time of the infant birth (< 20 years: ≥ 20 years).

«My conclusion was that seven year olds born to mothers who drank small quantities of alcohol during their pregnancies did significantly better emotionally and behaviorally at age seven that the children of mothers who did not drink anything during pregnancy.

Egg donation, like IVF and ICSI, is considered a safe treatment, despite the older age of patients, but a new study from France has found that the pregnancies of egg donation patients are at a higher risk of disorders — particularly relating to high blood pressure — than the pregnancies of routine IVF patients using their own eggs.

«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.»

Even though the concentration of DHA in breast milk is very small, the brains of breast - fed infants accumulate fifty percent more DHA than those of infants fed formulas devoid of the fatty acid.43 When a mother improves her DHA status by supplementing with cod liver oil during pregnancy and the first three months of lactation, 44 it improves her child's IQ at four years of age, although the effect is drowned out by other factors as the child grows older.45

Staffers visit kindergarten classrooms to identify children who, even at their young age, are seen by their teachers as likely future candidates for prison or early pregnancy (because the students carry a great deal of family and social baggage and because, even as five - year - olds, they are extremely hard to manage in the classroom).

The average age of the women at pregnancy was 28 years and ranged from 14 to 46; < 5 % were younger than 20 years of age and < 1 % were older than 40 years of age.