There may be a small benefit to labor induction in low-risk woman at 41 weeks vs expectant management, though the chances of a good perinatal outcome are high with both strategies.
Women who become pregnant from infertility treatment may be at an increased risk for postpartum hemorrhage, admission to the intensive care unit, or puerperal sepsis as well as death.
The risk of stillbirth is increased in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy when serum bile acids concentrations are ≥100 µmol/L or more.
Assuming causality, 22% of SUIDs directly attributed to maternal smoking during pregnancy.
Compared with liquid-based cytology, routine primary hrHPV screening better detected cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or worse and cervical cancer.
Annual relapse rate 0.39 before pregnancy, dropped during pregnancy, rebounded by four to six months.
Postmenopausal women were recruited from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study to analyze the relationship between perceived social support and CVD or all-cause mortality.
PCR screening for group B Streptococcus at the onset of labor is associated with a decreased rate of early-onset GBS and antibiotic use in newborns.
Endometrial scratching with the use of a pipelle biopsy may not increase live birth rates for women undergoing in vitro fertilization.
Women who were born at a low birth weight and currently are overweight or obese were found to be at increased risk for complications of pregnancy, including preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), according to a study published in Obesity. Researchers recruited women from the Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) study between November 2004 and February…
