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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel Schafer, Kevin Wang, Felicia Sundling, Jean Yang, Anthony Liu, Ralph Nanan
Summary: This study investigated how maternal and perinatal risk factors are linked to poorly controlled childhood asthma in a sex-dependent manner. The results showed that maternal BMI and threatened preterm labor had a significant impact on boys, while parity, birth length z-score, and birth weight z-score had a greater influence on girls. Allergic status was a common risk factor for both boys and girls in multiple hospital admissions for asthma.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Lori B. Chibnik, Karestan C. Koenen, Marc G. Weisskopf, Andrea L. Roberts
Summary: This study found that genetic risk for mental illness is associated with perinatal risk factors such as smoking during pregnancy, breastfeeding for less than 1 month, experience of intimate partner violence in the year before birth, and pregestational overweight or obesity. These results suggest that genetic risk might account for the associations between perinatal conditions and mental illness in offspring.
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Lydia Gabriela Speyer, Hildigunnur Anna Hall, Anastasia Ushakova, Aja Louise Murray, Michelle Luciano, Bonnie Auyeung
Summary: The study found that lower levels of happiness about the pregnancy, smoking during pregnancy, infection during pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum, baby in special care, not being white, being from a more deprived area, lower income, and history of depression or anxiety were associated with increased postnatal psychological distress. These results suggest that a holistic approach is important in assessing the risk of developing postnatal psychological distress.
ACTA OBSTETRICIA ET GYNECOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA
(2021)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Dimitrios Papandreou, Maria Mantzorou, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Eleni Pavlidou, Georgios Antasouras, Evmorfia Psara, Efthymios Poulios, Georgios K. Vasios, Constantinos Giaginis
Summary: The rates of overweight and obesity are high among women of childbearing age in Greece, highlighting the urgent need for healthy lifestyle promotion and targeted obesity prevention and intervention schemes among this population.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Amir Naeh, Mordechai Hallak, Rinat Gabbay-Benziv
Summary: In advanced maternal age (AMA) parturients, the number of pregnancies and interpregnancy interval (IPI) are factors that can influence perinatal outcomes. Multiparity with an IPI <= 5 years appears to have a significant protective effect against adverse neonatal outcomes, while multiparity with an IPI > 5 years is no longer protective.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Sladjana Mihajlovic, Jelena Trifunovic Kubat, Dejan Nikolic, Milena Santric-Milicevic, Biljana Milicic, Nemanja Dimic, Milan Lackovic
Summary: Serbia has experienced devastating losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, including increased mortality rates among men and women of all ages. This study aims to present findings on maternal mortality in Serbia among pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 who are critically ill.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Philipp Kosian, Christian Jansen, Johannes Chang, Michael Praktiknjo, Tiyasha Hosne Ayub, Ulrich Gembruch, Waltraut M. Merz
Summary: This study evaluated the perinatal and maternal outcomes of high-risk pregnancies in a tertiary center. Complications were common, including ascites, subclavian thrombosis, variceal-ligation-induced ulcer bleeding, and postoperative hemorrhage. Cesarean delivery rate was high and there were high rates of preterm birth and neonatal intensive care unit admissions. Interdisciplinary care is crucial for successful outcomes.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Alistair J. Souch, Ian R. Jones, Katherine H. M. Shelton, Cerith S. Waters
Summary: Maternal childhood maltreatment (MCM) is associated with difficulties in maternal and infant emotional regulation and disturbances in the mother-infant relationship. Emotional and sexual abuse, as subtypes of MCM, are consistently associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. Future research should explore the biological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying these associations.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Maoka Yamada, Keiko Tanaka, Masashi Arakawa, Yoshihiro Miyake
Summary: Our study found an association between maternal depression during pregnancy and postpartum and childhood behavioral problems. Specifically, maternal depressive symptoms during these periods were linked to emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, and peer problems in children, highlighting the impact of perinatal maternal depression on childhood development.
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Amanda S. Nitschke, Jalisa L. Karim, Bruce A. Vallance, Celeste Bickford, Angie Ip, Nancy Lanphear, Bruce Lanphear, Whitney Weikum, Tim F. Oberlander, Gillian E. Hanley
Summary: Research findings suggest that the use of antibiotics during labor and delivery is not associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in offspring. This indicates that concerns about autism should not influence the decision to administer antibiotics during labor and delivery.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Saba Abdullah, Shumaila, Saba Mughal, Mahwish Samuel, Nazli Hossain
Summary: This study compared the maternal and perinatal outcome of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy in women with/without gestational diabetes. The results showed that gestational diabetes does not significantly affect the maternal and perinatal outcome among pregnant women.
PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jennifer J. Stuart, Lauren J. Tanz, Eric B. Rimm, Donna Spiegelman, Stacey A. Missmer, Kenneth J. Mukamal, Kathryn M. Rexrode, Janet W. Rich-Edwards
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and long-term cardiovascular disease (CVD) and identify the proportion mediated by established CVD risk factors. The results showed that women with HDP during their first pregnancy had a higher risk of CVD, which was mainly mediated by established CVD risk factors.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Ilya Querter, Nele S. Pauwels, Ruth De Bruyne, Ellen Dupont, Xavier Verhelst, Lindsey Devisscher, Hans Van Vlierberghe, Anja Geerts, Sander Lefere
Summary: Maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity are associated with an increased risk of pediatric NAFLD. Breastfeeding might be protective against the development of NAFLD.
CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
(2022)
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Izabela Marzec, Aleksandra Slowakiewicz, Jolanta Gozdowska, Olga Tronina, Marek Pacholczyk, Wojciech Lisik, Agata Fleming, Magdalena Durlik
Summary: Pregnancy after liver transplantation can achieve relatively favorable outcomes, with low rates of minor graft complications reported during pregnancy. A multidisciplinary team should be involved in contraceptive, fertility, and pregnancy counseling of female transplant recipients.
BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
(2021)
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Psychiatry
Cindy H. Liu, Carmina Erdei, Leena Mittal
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, perinatal women experienced elevated levels of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Women with pre-existing mental health diagnoses were more likely to exhibit clinically significant levels of mental health symptoms.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2021)