BACKGROUND The effects of pregnancy on women with the hereditary long QT syndrome are currently unknown. The appropriate medical management of pregnant patients with the long QT syndrome has not been established. METHODS AND RESULTS The study was a retrospective analysis of the 422 women (111 probands affected with the long QT syndrome and 311 first-degree relatives) enrolled in the long QT s...

This enzyme immunoassay procedure for pregnancy-associated plasma protein type A involves a "sandwich"-type system in microtitration plates. One can detect 0.27 mg of the protein per liter of serum, with a between-batch CV of 10.2%, and the antiserum used does not cross react with any of the other placentally derived proteins. A reference interval for the last trimester of pregnancy is presente...

Abstract Background Pregnancy has been associated with elevated incidence of tuberculosis disease. Since 2014, people living in Sweden origin tuberculosis-endemic countries are offered screening for infection antenatal care (ANC) using Quantiferon-TB assays. We assessed factors this population, and determined the disease during pregnancy postpartum periods regard to ANC results. Methods results...

BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated the combination of pregnancy complications that predict risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) death and how risk changes with age. This report presents a comprehensive investigation of the relation of the occurrence of multiple pregnancy complications to CVD death over 5 decades in a large pregnancy cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined pregnancy eve...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects on pregnancy outcomes of the duration of the preceding interpregnancy interval (IPI) and type of pregnancy outcome that began the interval. DESIGN Observational population-based study. SETTING The Maternal Child Health-Family Planning (MCH-FP) area of Matlab, Bangladesh. POPULATION A total of 66,759 pregnancy outcomes that occurred between 1982 and 2002. ...

abstract background and purpose: high-risk pregnancy is referred to a situation in which mother, fetus or neonate are in higher risk of morbidity or mortality. because of adverse outcomes of high-risk pregnancies, this study aims to determine these outcomes in the north of iran. materials and methods: we recruited 803 urban and rural pregnant women in this crosssectional study via consensus met...

This study aims to determine the risk factors for anemia in pregnant women at Baumata Health Center, Kupang Regency, 2022. The method used is observational with a cross-sectional approach. results showed that number of who had risky age was 28 respondents (63.8%), pregnancy interval were 21 (51.2%), nutritional status Chronic Energy Deficiency (KEK) totaled 25 (61%) and less knowledge about amo...