Risk Factors

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Infant Botulism

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

Tissue Growth Factors BMP 2

The classical tissue factors typically are proteins used for tissue repair and growth stimulation. Among the approved products are the growth factors PDGF, IGF, EGF, BMP and FGF. One of the commercial...

Fatter women more likely to have fatter babies

Among pregnant women who did not develop gestational diabetes, overweight women were 65 percent more likely, and obese women 163 percent more likely, to have overly large babies than their healthy wei...

Antioxidant rhSOD reduces risk of blindness in extremely low gestational age newborns

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is the second most common cause of childhood blindness in the United States, occurring in half of premature infants born earlier than or at 28 weeks gestational age. T...

Reproductive endocrinology: Reducing gestational weight gain—a panacea?

Reducing gestational weight gain is possible and may avoid some obstetric, perinatal and long-term metabolic risks for the mother and offspring. Reducing gestational weight gain, however, is not a pan...

Overweight and obese women more likely to have large babies

Among pregnant women who did not develop gestational diabetes, overweight women were 65 percent more likely, and obese women 163 percent more likely, to have overly large babies than their healthy wei...

Larger Babies Often Born To Overweight And Obese Women

Among pregnant women who did not develop gestational diabetes, overweight women were 65 percent more likely, and obese women 163 percent more likely, to have overly large babies than their healthy wei...

Lower Infant Death Rate for Later Gestation Weeks

Analysis of millions of California term births yields stratification of infant death by gestational age. Medscape Medical News

Women Who Carry Small-For-Gestational-Age Babies In First Pregnancy At Increased Risk For Recurrence In Second Pregnancy

In a study to be presented on February 16 between 8 a.m., and 10 a.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will re...

Before And During Pregnancy, Excess Maternal Weight Can Result In Larger Babies

Excess weight in pregnant women, both before pregnancy and gained during pregnancy, is the main predictor of whether mothers will have larger than average babies, which can result in increased risk of...

Association of Uric Acid With Progression to Preeclampsia and Development of Adverse Conditions in Gestational Hypertensive Pregnancies.

BackgroundPreeclampsia is a serious pregnancy complication. Gestational hypertension is a common first clinical presentation of preeclampsia. Little is known about which clinical risk factors are asso...

Prenatal hazardous substance use and adverse birth outcomes.

Objective: Assess the relative effects of a variety of illicit and licit drugs on risk for adverse birth outcomes. Methods: We used data from two large prospective investigations, and a novel analytic...

A population-based case-control study of fetal growth, gestational age, and maternal breast cancer.

Fetal growth or gestational age in a woman's pregnancies may modify pregnancy-related breast cancer risk, yet studies of these exposures are few. The authors conducted a population-based case-control...

The Association Between Inadequate Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Mortality Among U.S. Infants Born in 2002.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of inadequate gestational weight gain as a cause of infant mortality. Birth and infant death certificate data were obtained from a ra...

Prediction of Preeclampsia and Delivery of Small for Gestational Age Babies Based on a Combination of Clinical Risk Factors in High-Risk Women.

Objective. To develop clinical risk tools for preeclampsia and small for gestational age (SGA) in high-risk women. Methods. Individual risk scores based on clinical risk factors were calculated using...