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The purpose of this study was to determine whether registered nurses in specific areas of employment during pregnancy had a higher risk for congenital anomalies in their offspring. An offspring cohort (n = 22,611) was created through linkage of the British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency live and st...
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PMID: 21905386
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Previous studies of black-white disparities in perinatal outcomes have generally not controlled for both observed and unobserved neighborhood inequalities with models that compare only black and white women living in the same neighborhoods. Using 1999-2001 birth certificate data from...
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PMID: 21771918
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To compare obstetric and perinatal outcomes in women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and relate these to maternal risk factors.
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PMID: 21843303
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To investigate how pregnancy planning, time to conception, and infertility treatment influence cognitive development at ages 3 and 5.
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PMID: 21791498
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This longitudinal study examined the influence of parenting behaviors, well-being, and risk factors of low-income adolescent mothers on the cognitive and language abilities of children from infancy to age 3. Participants consisted of 1,240 mother-child dyads enrolled in the Early Head Start Research...
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PMID: 21486265
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To assess knowledge and attitudes of Pakistani women towards different options of anaesthesia techniques for caesarean section and also to identify their sources of information about them.
A total of 410 women scheduled for elective caesarean section were enrolled aft...
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PMID: 21465973
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To determine the frequency, predisposing factors and maternal and foetal outcome of uterine rupture.
This descriptive case series was conduced at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro from January 2008...
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PMID: 21465963
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Gastroschisis is increasing in many countries, especially among young women. Because young women may have inadequate nutrition, we assessed the relationship between individual nutrients and the risk for gastroschisis.
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PMID: 21396620
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Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is associated with preterm labor and may be positive in 15% of asymptomatic high-risk women. Fetal fibronectin (fFN) has been shown in symptomatic women to predict infection-related preterm birth. The purpose of this study was to quantitate the relationship between BV/fFN and...
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PMID: 21476464
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Anaemia in pregnancy is an important cause of maternal and neonatal mortality. It is a recognized co-morbidity of HIV infection. This study aimed to determine the risk of anaemia in HIV positive pregnant women. METHODOLOGY: This is a cross sectional study of healthy pregnant women attending Adeoyo Ho...
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PMID: 21834264
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Our objective was to demonstrate how a statistical technique, classification and regression trees (CART), can identify high-risk clinical clusters....
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PMID: 21349493
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To identify the proportion of major structural noncardiac anomalies identified with congenital heart defects (CHDs).
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PMID: 21329942
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To study women diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD) with respect to characteristics related to their own births, their subsequent likelihood of giving birth and the obstetric and neonatal outcomes of their pregnancies.
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PMID: 21314820
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Twin pregnancy is a high-risk pregnancy as it is associated with significant increase in the perinatal mortality and morbidity and maternal mortality and morbidity. This study was carried out to determine the maternal complications related with twin pregnancy. This was a cross-sectional observational...
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PMID: 21240168
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Turkey has improved the status of women and the maternal and perinatal health statistics in the last decades. However, discrepancies between urban-rural and east-other regions continue, with some improvements. The education of girls is promoted and maternal age at marriage and at first delivery has i...
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PMID: 21534333
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We present a case of a spontaneous pregnancy in a 42-year-old thalassemic woman referred to our Microcythemic Unit while she was on deferasirox (DFX) therapy. The patient had been on treatment with DFX since March 2008 and in March 2009 realized that she was pregnant at 12 weeks of gestation. The co...
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PMID: 21273766
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Childhood overweight/obesity is a major public health problem worldwide which disproportionally affects specific ethnic groups. Little is known about whether such differences already exist at an early age and which factors contribute to these ethnic differences. Therefore, the present study assessed...
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PMID: 21806791
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Due to the high incidence of neonatal complications in diabetic pregnancies, the aim of our study was to investigate whether elective cesarean section could prevent adverse neonatal outcome.
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PMID: 21306328
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To evaluate changing trends in neonatal births and deaths in a provincial women's and children's hospital over the past 20 years. Design: Retrospective longitudinal study.
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PMID: 21306327
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Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo (139)5-6 2011
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Cleft lip and palate is a complex congenital anomaly of the orofacial system in children.
The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of live-born children with cleft lip and/or palate compared to the total number of children born in the period from January 1...
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PMID: 21858966
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Irish medical journal (104)7 2011
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Fetal pleural effusion is a rare occurrence, with an incidence of 1 per 10-15,000 pregnancies. The prognosis is related to the underlying cause and is often poor. There is increasing evidence that in utero therapy with thoraco-amniotic shunting improves prognosis by allowing lung expansion thereby pr...
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PMID: 21957687
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The purpose of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to explore neighbourhood-level differences in health behaviour, maternal stress and sense of coherence, birth weight, child health and behaviour, and children's television watching habits. In total, 2006 pairs of Swedish mothers and children...
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PMID: 21721359
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Prenatal Diagnosis (31)1 2011
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To examine the association between maternal serum levels of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and free β-human chorionic gonadotrophin (free β-hCG) in trisomy 21, trisomy 18 and euploid pregnancies at 11-13 weeks and investigate the potential value of TSH in first-trimester screeni...
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PMID: 21210478
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Prenatal Diagnosis (31)1 2011
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We examined 33 856 singleton pregnancies at 11(+0) to 13(+6) weeks, and in 2396 CVS was carried out. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the factors contributing to miscarriage and stillbirth.
There were 33 310 (98.4%) livebirths, 404 (1.2%) miscarriages and 142 (0.4%) s...
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PMID: 21210479
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Prenatal Diagnosis (31)1 2011
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To develop models for prediction of pre-eclampsia (PE) based on maternal factors and biophysical and biochemical markers at 11-13 weeks' gestation.
Screening study of singleton pregnancies at 11-13 weeks including 752 (2.2%) that subsequently developed PE and 32,850 t...
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PMID: 21210481
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To evaluate the improvement of the term delivery rate after uterine surgery in various uterine malformations.
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PMID: 21150155
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We examined whether murderers with schizophrenia would demonstrate birth order anomalies, distinguishing them from both nonviolent schizophrenia patients and murderers without schizophrenia. Self-report birth order, psychosocial history data (i.e., maternal birth age, family size, parental criminali...
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PMID: 21135637
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A prospective study to identify the determinants of mortality among 185 preterm babies at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin.
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PMID: 21809607
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British Journal of Nutrition (104)12 2010
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We evaluated the effect of maternal adiposity on the plasma concentration of adipocytokines in pregnant women and their newborns. Twenty patients with term gestations without labour were initially selected by pregestational BMI and then classified into two study groups (n 10 each), according to thei...
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PMID: 20650016
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To present the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis in threatened preterm, preterm, and term labor and results after treatment.
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PMID: 21344795
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Advanced maternal age, obesity and cigarette smoking are associated with decreased fertility, adverse Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) outcomes and fetal and neonatal complications. IVF failures increase dramatically in women aged between 42-43 years. Advanced paternal age is associated with...
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PMID: 21185491
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Zhongguo shi yan xue ye xue za zhi / Zhongguo bing li sheng li xue hui = Journal of experimental hematology / Chinese Association of Pathophysiology (18)6 2010
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Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation with success being associated with the total nucleated cell (TNC) count, CD34(+) cells and colony-forming unit-granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) content infused. This study was purposed to clarify the im...
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PMID: 21176366
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Epidemiology (21)6 2010
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The hypothesis was that some occupations could lead to preterm birth (PTB) because of potential exposures to various agents. The objective in this nationwide follow-up study was to analyse the association between PTB and parental occupational groups, controlling for potential confounders. Data from...
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PMID: 20955233
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Psychological Medicine (40)10 2010
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Concerns have been expressed about possible adverse effects of the use of antidepressant medication during pregnancy, including risk for neonatal pathology and the presence of congenital malformations.
Data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register (MBR) from 1 July 1995 up to 2007 were used to identi...
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PMID: 20047705
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Epidemiology (21)5 2010
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We identified 146 women who had been told by a health professional that they had benign breast disease. Log-binomial regression models with Generalized Estimating Equation methods were employed to quantify the association between maternal smoking and benign breast disease among offspring.
There was...
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PMID: 20631621
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Epidemiology (21)5 2010
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We carried out a population-based cohort study of 1,524,114 singletons born in Denmark between 1 January 1978 and 31 December 2004. We obtained information on gestational age, birth weight, and injury from the Danish Medical Birth Registry and the National Hospital Register. We followed participants...
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PMID: 20585254
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World-wide, there are between 3 and 4 million stillbirths delivered each year, 98% of these deaths occur in the developing world. Although there are very significant differences in the rate and causes of stillbirth in these settings, the study of stillbirth globally gives insight into the interactio...
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PMID: 20661043
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High rates of asthma and asthma symptoms, together with the low rates of use of controller medications, underscore the need to better understand the risks and safety of asthma medications during pregnancy.
Copyright 2010 American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Published by Elsevier Inc. Al...
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PMID: 20674820
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The aim of this study was to survey multiple birth data and to analyze the recent trends of multiple births and its consequences on perinatal problems in Korea from 1991 to 2008. Data were obtained from the Korean Statistical Information Service. The total number of multiple births showed increasing...
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PMID: 20676332
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Although selection of chromosomally normal embryos has the potential to improve outcomes for patients undergoing IVF, the clinical impact of aneuploidy screening by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has been controversial. There are many putative explanations including sampling error due to...
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PMID: 20479065
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These results demonstrate the association between the metabolism, cytogenetic composition and health of human embryos in vitro....
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PMID: 20571076
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The ability to identify oocytes with the greatest potential for producing a viable embryo would be of great benefit to assisted reproductive treatments. One of the most important defects affecting oocytes is aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is also closely related with advancing maternal age, a phenomenon not...
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PMID: 20444854
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White women experience their lowest rate of low birth weight (LBW) in their late 20s; the nadir LBW for African-American women is under 20 years with rates rising monotonically thereafter, hypothesized as due to "weathering" or deteriorating health with cumulative disadvantage. Current residential e...
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PMID: 20576757
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Oocytes are formed in utero; menopause occurs when the oocyte pool is depleted. The authors hypothesized that early-life events could affect the number of a woman's oocytes and determine age at menopause. To test their hypothesis, the authors conducted a secondary analysis of baseline data from 22,1...
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PMID: 20534821
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings (85)7 2010
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To compare the clinical presentation, autonomic dysfunction, and pregnancy outcomes in parous and nulliparous women with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and in women with POTS before and after pregnancy.
This study consists of women who had at least 1 pregnancy d...
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PMID: 20516426
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We analyzed the amniocentesis data of 2,032 gravidas who had fetal karyotyping for the sole indication of advanced maternal age. Also, we compared the prevalence of trisomy 21 among countries using previously published datasets.
The incidence of aneuploidies increased exponentially with maternal age...
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PMID: 20523029
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)7 2010
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We assessed maternal adaptation and the relationship between maternal sociodemographic factors and adaptation as well as examining maternal distress. All 100 mothers with children aged 6-18 years attending the school were recruited in the study. Three tools were used: demographic data sheet, adaptat...
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PMID: 20799533
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CS rates are generally very high in Brazil. They are significantly higher than the average among women attending private/insured antenatal care, among the highly educated, and in provinces with higher socioeconomic levels....
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PMID: 20583936
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Maternal complications are frequent in CS, and although performing CS electively reduces the occurrence of complications, the frequency is still high. The complication rate depends on the degree of emergency, and increases with maternal obesity, older age and pre-eclampsia....
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PMID: 20583935
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There were 7242 children who had cerebral palsy (59% term) and 31.3% had 1 or more of the 6 adverse intrapartum events (12.9% in controls P < .0001). This held for both term (28.3% vs 12.7% controls) and preterm (36.8% vs 15.9%, controls) neonates (both P < .0001). Maternal (15.1% vs 6.6%) and neona...
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PMID: 20598283
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Placental abruption occurred earlier in pregnancy with male fetal sex but otherwise the outcomes were similar. Compared with controls newborns in the placental abruption group had a worse outcome....
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PMID: 20199362
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We used data from birth years 2000 to 2005 from 32 surveillance programs of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research. We computed the adjusted observed versus expected ratio (aOE) of DS birth prevalence among women 25-44 years old. The aOE ratio was close to unity...
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PMID: 20578135
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This study provides evidence that reproductive factors (parity and early age at first birth) may confer a protective effect on the risk of pancreatic cancer....
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PMID: 20173674
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Breastfeeding review : professional publication of the Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia (18)2 2010
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Information about local breastfeeding rates and predictors of breastfeeding outcomes can assist with improving health planning and community support. Longitudinal infant feeding data were collected during scheduled contacts with a Community Child Health Nurse and a telephone survey at 6 months for 3...
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PMID: 20879656
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Obstetrics & Gynecology (116)1 2010
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Of the 11,787 home births with planning status recorded in the 19 states studied here, 9,810 (83.2%) were identified as planned home births. The proportion of all births that occurred at home that were planned varied from 54% to 98% across states. Unplanned home births are more likely to involve mot...
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PMID: 20567173
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Obstetrics & Gynecology (116)1 2010
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The occurrence of obstetric anal sphincter injuries increased from 0.5% in 1967 to 4.1% in 2004. After adjusting for demographic and other risk factors, as well as possible confounders, the increase of obstetric anal sphincter injuries persisted, although reduced (unadjusted OR 7.1; 95% confidence i...
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PMID: 20567164
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