Sentences with phrase «urine of pregnant women»

The midstream urine of pregnant women is usually tested.

Therefore, the usual wisdom — based on long and painful experience — is that when bacteria are found in the urine of a pregnant woman, even when she has no symptoms, those bacteria should be eradicated with antibiotics.

It takes a few days for the hCG hormone to build up in the body to a level, which is high enough for it be detected in the blood or urine of pregnant women.

Consumer Reports is especially concerned about a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences linking rice consumption to levels of arsenic in the urine of pregnant women.

When this dye was used to test the urine of pregnant women, researchers found that it helped identify both the presence and future severity of preeclampsia.

To better understand the presence and importance of these proteins in the urine of pregnant women with preeclampsia, the team used a dye called Congo Red, which was known to bind proteins such as amyloid based on previous research done with other protein misfolding conditions.

Dr. Buhimschi's team is the first to characterize the range of misfolded proteins found in the urine of pregnant women with preeclampsia.

«We were studying the urine of pregnant women with preeclampsia and noticed these improperly folded proteins, and that was the «Eureka!»

A latest study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center reports that pre-eclampsia, characterized by an elevation in the blood pressure and excess protein in the urine of pregnant women, has a 1.5-fold to 2-fold higher incidence in first pregnancies.

«We were therefore very concerned when we discovered high levels of muconic acid in the urine of pregnant women.»

Dr Simeons was famous for injecting HCG sourced from the urine of pregnant women into obese people in the»50s and»60s.

Originally, back in the late 1950's and early 1960's, Dr. Simeons recommended a 500 calorie per day protocol, in conjunction with injections of 125 IU of the hormone HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin), which is extracted from the urine of pregnant women (you can't make this stuff up).

Ketones in the urine of pregnant women scare many good doctors into fearing the life - threatening conditions of diabetic ketoacidosis in pregnancy or starvation ketosis.

hCG is a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women in their first trimester of pregnancy, as well as in the pituitary gland of males and females of all ages at a lower concentration.