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2024 JUL 6 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions - Aortic Dissection have [...]

2023 FEB 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained the following [...]

2020 NOV 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Investigators publish new report on Immune System Diseases and Conditions - HIV/AIDS. According to [...]

2020 NOV 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- New research on Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions - Hypertension is the subject of a [...]

2019 DEC 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Heart Disorders and Diseases - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy have [...]

Byline: Steven Ross Johnson Dene Duckworth of Chicago had been told most of her life that she could not have children. So it was a surprise when, at age 39, [...]

2017 SEP 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Women who experience hypertension during pregnancy face an increased risk of heart [...]

2016 OCT 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Investigators discuss new findings in Women's Health - Pregnancy Complications. According to news reporting [...]

Byline: Brian P. Fitzsimmons, Michael W. Bebbington, Margo R. Fluker Keywords: Multiple pregnancy; assisted reproduction; perinatal outcomes Abstract: Objective: Our purpose was to test the hypothesis that multiple pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive therapy have a better outcome than those resulting from spontaneous conception. Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Cases came from pregnancies from assisted reproductive techniques. Controls were identified from spontaneous multiple pregnancies delivered in the same time period. Matching was done for maternal age, parity, fetal number, and presence of maternal medical problems. A total of 72 cases (56 twins and 16 triplets) and 124 controls (108 twins and 16 triplets) were studied. The primary outcome was perinatal mortality. Secondary outcomes were preterm delivery, birth weight, maternal complications, neonatal morbidity, and length of hospitalization. Results: Perinatal mortality is significantly increased in spontaneous twin gestations compared with twins resulting from assisted reproductive techniques (24 vs 2, P = .003). No difference is seen in the perinatal mortality in triplets. Mean gestational age at diagnosis was lower for twins and triplets resulting from assisted reproductive techniques (9.4 vs 13.3; P < .001 and 8.8 vs 15.8; P < .001, respectively). Rate of cerclage and number of prenatal visits was higher for triplets in the assisted reproductive techniques group (P = .05 and .02, respectively). Mean gestational age at delivery, birth weight, rate of preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of membranes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and incidence of gestational diabetes were not significantly different between the groups. No significant differences in neonatal morbidity were detected. Conclusions: Assisted reproductive techniques-associated twins have lower perinatal mortality than spontaneously conceived twins. Perinatal and neonatal morbidity, gestational age at delivery, and birth weight are not affected by assisted reproductive techniques, even with closer surveillance and earlier gestational age at diagnosis in this group. Differences may be due to a higher frequency of monochorionic placentation in the spontaneously conceived group. (Am J Obstet Gynecol 1998;179:1162-7.) Author Affiliation: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Article Note: (footnote) [star] From the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia,a and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Genesis Fertility Center.b , [star][star] Reprints not available from the authors., a 0002-9378/98 $5.00 + 0 6/6/93538

Byline: Andrea G. Witlin, Steven A. Friedman, Robert S. Egerman, Antoine Y. Frangieh, Baha M. Sibai Keywords: Cerebrovascular disorders; eclampsia; pregnancy Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to investigate the problems encountered in the diagnosis and management of cerebrovascular disorders associated with pregnancy and the puerperium. STUDY DESIGN: Pregnancies complicated by cerebrovascular disorders were identified by retrospective chart review (1985 to 1995). Events associated with trauma, neoplasm, drug ingestion, and infection were excluded. RESULTS: The study population comprised 24 women with a variety of cerebrovascular disorders: 14 with infarction (5 arterial, 9 venous), 6 with intracranial hemorrhage (3 anatomic malformation, 3 unknown etiology), 3 with hypertensive encephalopathy, and 1 with an unruptured aneurysm. Blood pressure reflected physical condition at presentation and did not predict diagnosis or outcome except in the 3 women with hypertensive encephalopathy. Only 4 of 14 women with infarction and 1 of 6 with intracranial hemorrhage had a diastolic blood pressure [greater than or equal to]110 mm Hg. Presumption of eclampsia delayed the diagnosis in 10 women (41.7%). In addition, patient delay in seeking medical attention complicated 10 cases. After review, none of the adverse maternal outcomes were deemed preventable by earlier physician intervention. Seven maternal deaths occurred (29.2%). Neonatal outcome was related to the gestational age and the maternal condition at presentation. CONCLUSION: Cerebrovascular disorders are an uncommon and unpredictable complication of pregnancy that are associated with substantial maternal and fetal mortality. Suspected eclampsia unresponsive to magnesium sulfate therapy warrants an immediate neuroimaging study. Interestingly, in women with intracranial hemorrhage, severe hypertension was not an associated predictive factor. (Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997;176:1139-48.) Author Affiliation: Memphis, Tennessee Article Note: (footnote) [star] From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee, Memphis., [star][star] Reprint requests: Baha M. Sibai, MD, University of Tennessee, Memphis, 853 Jefferson, E102, Memphis, TN 38103., a 0002-9378/97 $5.00 + 0 6/6/81341

LAS VEGAS -- Women who develop any form of hypertensive disease during pregnancy have a significantly increased mortality rate until they reach age 50, compared with women without the condition. [...]

Research has been conducted on superimposed preeclampsia in women with chronic hypertension. The authors have investigated midtrimester homocystein concentration levels in predicting preeclampsia, and they report that homocystein concentration levels cannot help in preeclampsia prediction in these women.

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2008.10.012 Byline: Andrea G. Edlow, Sindhu K. Srinivas, Michal A. Elovitz Keywords: cardiovascular disease; hypertension; preeclampsia; pregnancy; pregnancy complications Abstract: Women with a history of preeclampsia are at increased risk for long-term cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This study assessed whether a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia is associated with an increased prevalence of maternal hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors shortly after delivery. Author Affiliation: Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA Article Note: (footnote) Support was provided through a FOCUS Medical Student Fellowship in Women's Health supported by the Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation., Reprints are not available from the authors.

LAS VEGAS -- Two similar behavioral interventions during pregnancy both succeeded in capping gestational weight gain in two independent randomized trials, but neither intervention produced improvements in obstetrical outcomes. Results [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2007.04.043 Byline: Margaret E. Samuels-Kalow (a), Edmund F. Funai (a), Catalin Buhimschi (a), Errol Norwitz (a), Mary Perrin (b), Ronit Calderon-Margalit (c), Lisa Deutsch (c), Ora Paltiel (c), Yechiel Friedlander (c), Orly Manor (c), Susan Harlap (b) Keywords: body mass index; hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; maternal mortality Abstract: Recent studies have shown increased maternal mortality rates after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), but the reasons for this increase remain unclear. This study examines the relationship between elevated prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), HDP, and postpregnancy mortality. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (b) Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY (c) Department of Hematology, Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Article Note: (footnote) Supported by a summer research grant from National Institutes of Health-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute through the Office of Student Research, Yale University School of Medicine (M.E.S-K.); by the National Center for Research Resources, RR15536-05 (E.F.F.); and by National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the National Cancer Institute (2R01CA-080197; S.H.). Cite this article as: Samuels-Kalow ME, Funai EF, Buhimschi C, et al. Prepregnancy body mass index, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and long-term maternal mortality. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2007;197:490.e1-490.e6.

Byline: Sole-Smith, Virginia Baby Pressure If your blood pressure spiked with your Baby Gap bills, beware: High blood pressure during pregnancy may be a red flag for stroke or heart [...]

An attempt is made to determine population-based rates and outcomes of hypertensive disorders which is common in pregnancy. The results reveal that women with, and infants exposed to hypertension are more likely to suffer death or major morbidity than those without hypertension.