OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between mode of delivery and public versus privately funded obstetric care within the same hospital setting. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Urban maternity hospital in Ireland. POPULATION A total of 30 053 women with singleton pregnancies who delivered between 2008 and 2011. METHODS The study population was divided into those who booked ...

BACKGROUND Anaemia is arguably the biggest female health problems in developing countries. The world is still to fully fathom the extent and gravity of the problem. This problem aggravates particularly during and after pregnancies due to increased nutritional demands and inadequate iron supply and is therefore more widespread in parous segments of female population. Objective of this study was ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of drug use in 1945 parous pregnant Scandinavian women, to determine the most common drug categories, and to describe changes in drug use throughout pregnancy. The women were interviewed about drug use by a specially trained midwife at five different occasions during pregnancy: at gestational week 17, 25, 33, 37, and on admission fo...

STUDY QUESTION Do women who give birth after assisted reproductive technology (ART) have an increased risk of cancer compared with women who give birth without ART? SUMMARY ANSWER Without correction, the results indicate an increase in overall cancer risk, as well as a 50% increase in risk of CNS cancer for women giving birth after ART, however the results were not significant after correctin...

the indications and results of cytogenetic analysis of 521 amniotic cell cultures performed at 13-16 weeks of gestation were evaluated in this study. 507 fetuses (97.3%) were cytogenetically normal, 14 (2.7%) had unbalanced karyotypes, and 2 fetuses were found to have major abnormalities, one with anencephaly detected by measurement of alpha -fetoprotein levels in amniotic fluid and ultrasonogr...