Sentences with phrase «women are at a higher risk»

With an increased blood volume, pregnant women are at a high risk for blood clots.

«We do know that there are demographic and environmental risks,» Dr. Moon says, noting that African - American and Native American babies die of SIDS at two to three times the national average, for example, and babies who are born to women who smoked during pregnancy or to very young women are at a higher risk.

The researchers also found that women were at a higher risk of foregoing medical care.

Dr. Senn says young women are at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted, primarily by male acquaintances, and that any reduction in these numbers would result in a substantial improvement in their mental and physical health.

«Blood kisspeptin level test may identify which pregnant women are at high risk for miscarriage.»

In contrast to the new study, past research on civilians has found that women are at higher risk than men for PTSD.

A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago has found that women are at the highest risk for heart failure within the six weeks after delivery, known as the postpartum period.

Women are at higher risk, as are people who've had traumatic sports injuries.

The study findings may be about more than just bragging rights, however: Researchers say they may shed light on how male and female brains age differently, and why women are at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease.

That's why post-menopausal women are at higher risk for osteoporosis — they have much lower levels of estrogen than when they were younger.

Women are at a higher risk of osteoporosis than men — a degenerative disease of the bones that makes them weak and brittle.

This is why pregnant women are at higher risk of joint injury.

It is very important to note that African Americans and postmenopausal women are at higher risk for type 2 diabetes than the general population.

Although osteoporosis is often thought to be a disease for which postmenopausal women are at highest risk, it is also a potential problem for older men.

Due to their lack of ownership over land (and other reasons mentioned previously), this constant positive feedback loop of injustice leads to women being at a higher risk of losing their land which results in food insecurity and acute poverty.

In addition, women are at a higher risk of developing osteoporosis due to smoking.

Not exact matches

Prevalence was highest among women aged 18 to 25 years, indicating that young women are at greater risk for prenatal marijuana use,» wrote the study authors.

Women in their thirties and forties have diminished fertility, are at higher risk of miscarriage and are more likely to experience birth complications requiring a caesarean section.

However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.

... Based on current knowledge, there is no medical evidence to indicate that in the general population, women of reproductive age are at higher risk of miscarriage or preterm delivery if they continue to breastfeed while pregnant.

Instead of excluding the high risk births from both groups, they include the homebirth outcomes of premature births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became risked out of homebirth by becoming high risk at the end of pregnancy, had hospital births, but are included in the homebirth group.

Perinatal mortality rates for hospital births of low risk women are similar to outcomes of planned homebirth in general, but the maternal morbidity at planned hospital births is much higher.

We know it's higher than in hospital, but that is at least partly due to inadequate midwifery education and to some high risk women being considered as suitable candidates for homebirth, so it's a foregone conclusion that the stats will be bad.

And black women are at an especially high risk.

Every new mom is at risk for PPD, but some women have a higher risk.

The goal of regionalized maternal care is for pregnant women at high risk to receive care in facilities that are prepared to provide the required level of specialized care, thereby reducing maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.

Based on their findings, however, the researchers believe that women who carry either BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 should be aware that they may be at higher risk of infertility and early menopause, and consider having children sooner.

Health - care workers, engineers, technicians and women in related fields are at higher risk because they are exposed to a variety of chemicals that could cause birth defects, according to researchers at a recent conference in Seattle sponsored by the American Medical Women «s Associawomen in related fields are at higher risk because they are exposed to a variety of chemicals that could cause birth defects, according to researchers at a recent conference in Seattle sponsored by the American Medical Women «s AssociaWomen «s Association.

The program was started to help high - risk women who were giving birth at Highland Park Hospital and includes bilingual support, home visits and parent education groups.

The higher risk obstetric wards were also really lovely, with communal sitting rooms for post-partum women and the offer of iPod players, electric tealight «candles», electric oil burners, etc. the ob wards were definitely more «sterile» than the FBCs, but at the end of the day you're staying in a hospital, not a five star hotel.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

For healthy nulliparous women with a low risk pregnancy, the risk of an adverse perinatal outcome seems to be higher for planned births at home, and the intrapartum transfer rate is high in all settings other than an obstetric unit

My doctor recommended them as they reduce the risk of blood clots, which women are typically at higher risk for during long flights.

And I say «at least» because this study didn't include women who were high risk.

For nulliparous women, there is some evidence that planning birth at home is associated with a higher risk of an adverse perinatal outcome.

But women who really trust «Birth» are those who choose homebirth when they are at high risk of killing their babies.

Obstetricians have special training in high - risk pregnancy and surgery and are therefore appropriate caregivers for women with established serious medicalconditions or who are at high risk for developing such conditions.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Obstetricians have special training in high - risk pregnancy and surgery and are therefore appropriate caregivers for women with established serious medical conditions or who are at high risk for developing such conditions.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

If I have a healthy, low risk pregnancy, with a history of successful, complication free, vaginal births, then my risk should be even lower than the statistical risk because the statistical risk includes women who are at a higher risk than myself, if that makes sense.

And more importantly, rather than just comparing home vs hospital overall, it compared midwife - led vs OB - led births at home vs hospital (as you should well know, in the Netherlands, low - risk women see a midwife, full stop — you have to be high - risk to see an OB, so hospital births are a combination of low - risk women under midwife care and high - risk women under OB care).

And of course if a woman is having an induction for medical indications related to an increased risk of stillbirth (post dates, high blood pressure, poor fetal growth), it is likely that her baby is also at risk for intrapartum complications necessitating a C - section, regardless of whether or not she was induced.

Well, the vast majority of women give birth in the hospital, especially those at the highest risk for complications, so of course there is a larger absolute number dying in the hospital.

[33] Thus, although the data varies, it is generally agreed upon by most gynecological societies that due to the high estrogen levels that women with PCOS have, they are at higher risk for endometrial hyperplasia.

Obstetricians have a hugely important role to play in Irish maternity services particularly in the care of women at high risk of complications, however home births are outside the scope of their practice, they have no working knowledge or expertise in the area and therefore should not be expected to be brought into the process in an ad hoc manner.

4 5 Others have advocated home birth for women at high risk of obstetric complications, 6 7 and trends to abandon risk assessment for home birth are apparent in both Australia8 and the United States.9

When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.

Looking at preterm birth, which is a risk factor for newborn infant loss, a 2003 study examined 1,962 women and found that those who reported high counts of anxiety were more likely to experience preterm labor and subsequent birth.

(For women at high risk of postpartum depression, a one - to two - week follow - up appointment is encouraged.)