"Pregnancy outcomes" refers to the end results or consequences of a pregnancy, such as whether a woman gives birth to a healthy baby, experiences a miscarriage, or has complications during pregnancy.
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In this two - hour webinar, you will learn how to optimize fertility and promote
healthy pregnancy outcomes with evidence based nutrition and lifestyle interventions.
By pretending that «trusting» birth, eating right and having long prenatal appointments can prevent devastating complications, women feel a false sense of control
over pregnancy outcomes.
This cohort study assesses whether panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder during pregnancy, or medications used to treat these conditions, are associated with adverse maternal or
neonatal pregnancy outcomes.
The positive effects of partner support
on pregnancy outcomes and maternal (mental) health are well established in the literature.
Interferon signaling, and a fetus's ability to detect and respond to infection, could be tied to adverse
pregnancy outcomes in humans, the researchers speculated.
Subjects were identified from an ongoing
pregnancy outcome study conducted through the California Teratogen Information Service and Clinical Research Program.
Secondly, some conditions mentioned in this brochure may increase the risk of adverse
pregnancy outcomes including premature labor and delivery, birth injury, and stillbirth.
«These results suggest that [intermittent screening and treatment with DP] may not be a suitable alternative strategy to replace [intermittent preventive therapy with SP] in settings similar to ours and may even predispose to
unfavorable pregnancy outcomes in these settings,» the authors say.
The six - year study
compared pregnancy outcomes in 254 women with HG who were sick enough that they needed treatment for dehydration with intravenous fluids to 308 women who had normal or no morning sickness during pregnancy.
«We know that habitual snoring is linked with poor
pregnancy outcomes for both mother and child, including increased risk of C - sections and smaller babies,» says lead author Louise O'Brien, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor at U-M's Sleep Disorders Center in the Department of Neurology and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the U-M Medical School.
Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on
pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20
In brief, the HAPO study was a 15 - center multicultural study designed to examine the association between maternal hyperglycemia and adverse
pregnancy outcomes among women with singleton pregnancies whose OGTT results were below the thresholds that have traditionally defined gestational diabetes.
The risk status of a pregnancy was defined using a mixture of maternal International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes [19] and individual fields in the SMMIS database, and was based on a 2007 clinical guideline from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) which contained lists of medical and obstetric conditions which indicate increased risk of
negative pregnancy outcomes [20].
Epidemiological and mechanistic studies have sought to delineate developmental processes and plausible risk factors
influencing pregnancy outcomes and later health.
«Protein intakes above this [25 % of total calories] threshold may
affect pregnancy outcome through decreased mass at birth and increased perinatal morbidity and mortality.»
We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected on a subsample of 242 women and their infants enrolled during pregnancy in the ongoing
Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition cohort study.
One of the first to focus on the number of chromosome sets (ploidy) and implantation rate of D7 embryos, the study provides the largest data set available on
pregnancy outcomes after transfer of D7 blastocysts (embryos at an early stage of development).
The mission of the American Pregnancy Association is to make motherhood a healthy reality and to promote
positive pregnancy outcomes by providing education, support, and access to care.
CONCLUSIONS: The common polymorphisms in MTHFR are not associated with embryo quality or with short -
term pregnancy outcomes.
But by illustration, the nuMoM2b (new mom to be) study is a prospective cohort that's looking at adverse pregnancy outcomes [in 10,000 women].
The new study, done at eight U.S. and one Canadian medical center, is the largest one yet to
follow pregnancy outcomes for women with lupus.
A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center looked
at pregnancy outcomes in regards to the two surgical treatments for ectopic pregnancy — salpingectomy, in which the affected fallopian tube is removed, or salpingotomy, in which the tube is preserved.
Called the Adverse
Pregnancy Outcomes Reporting System, it dispatches nurses to the babies» homes to monitor their growth and development, for up to two years if necessary.
Perhaps the most surprising finding — even low levels of PCBs, the same as those found in the general U.S. population, were associated with adverse
early pregnancy outcomes in IVF, said Dr. Russ Hauser, professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the study.
«While several observational studies have suggested that celiac disease is associated with
different pregnancy outcomes, this research takes into account the actual levels of tissue transglutaminase that reflect the degree of mucosal damage associated with undiagnosed celiac disease or limited compliance to a gluten - free diet.
Records of women with and without a confirmed diagnosis of endometriosis were cross-linked to their maternity records to
evaluate pregnancy outcomes.
In 2001, there was the well publicized science scandal perpetrated by Columbia researchers claiming that prayer
enhanced pregnancy outcomes - supposed «birth miracles» - were proven by the empirical evidence.
Community health workers, funded by the Department of Healths Improving
Pregnancy Outcomes Initiative, work alongside the central intake worker to recruit families and direct them to the central intake hub.
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