Prenatal Care & Cord Blood
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Substance abuse in pregnancy doubles cardiovascular risk: Study
Credit: JACC: Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100619 Pregnant women with a history of substance abuse face a dramatically increased risk of…
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Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home
Alisha Alderson who is due to give birth in September, sits in the living room of her house in Baker…
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Hypertension and anemia drive racial gaps in birth complications, studies find
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two common, treatable medical conditions—hypertension and iron-deficiency anemia—contribute significantly to racial disparities in childbirth complications, according…
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Dangers and deaths around Black pregnancies seen as a ‘completely preventable’ health crisis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tonjanic Hill was overjoyed in 2017 when she learned she was 14 weeks pregnant. Despite a…
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Size of the mother and father found to impact the risk of having a big baby
Flow diagram of the study sample from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway 1967–2017. Credit: Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (2023).…
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Black individuals have significantly more pre-term births than white individuals
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Non-Hispanic Black individuals have a significantly higher rate of pre-term births than non-Hispanic white individuals, reports…
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2017 to 2020 saw 1,067 homicides of infants in U.S.
From 2017 through 2020, 1,067 homicides occurred among infants in the United States, averaging 267 per year, according to the…
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Parents’ psychiatric diagnoses are associated with risk of preterm birth, study finds
Researchers find both children of parents with mental illness are at increased risk of being born too early—both the mothers…
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Study finds similar outcomes for in-person prenatal care or a combination of virtual and in-office visits
Association of Health Care Outcomes With Exposure to a Multimodal Prenatal Health Care Model During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The figure…
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Prenatal exposure to phthalates may impact future fertility differently in males and females, animal study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Prenatal exposure to chemicals called phthalates, which are used in hundreds of products, may lead to…
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