Certain correlations between food intake and social status, height, weight and gain of weight during pregnancy were referred to in a previous series of papers (Thomson, 1958,1959a, b). In this paper, the same data, derived from a study of pregnant women, are used to investigate further the relationships of height and weight to diet. The most interesting conclusion is that, contrary to popular b...

Administered Chloroform to a young man in Highgate, the son of a Butcher, whilst Mr. Coulson tied several large haemorrhoids from which the patient had lost a great deal of blood two or three days before. He was a muscular man and accustomed to lift {323) 323 heavy weights, and there was some excitement & considerable rigidity. No sickness. Wednesday 10 Sept. Administered Chloroform to a lady n...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an uncommon cause of acute coronary syndromes and still remains as a clinical dilemma for the cardiologists. There are almost 250 cases in the literature and most of them are about female patients. Etiology and optimal treatment have not yet been well defined. Although coronary artery disease, pregnancy induced hormonal changes, cystic medial deg...

Aim: To evaluate the clinical significance of factors predisposing to severe form SARS-CoV-2 virus infection during pregnancy. Material and methods study. 240 pregnant women with signs acute respiratory disease were examined. All subjected general clinical, obstetrical, clinical-laboratory examination (general analysis blood, urine, biochemical blood tests, coagulogram, PCR diagnostic test veri...

A substantial number of women consume alcohol while pregnant, thereby putting their unborn fetus at risk for developing a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) [1]. Despite the fact that some of the highest rates of FASDs in the world have been reported in the Western Cape of South Africa [2,3], little research looks at the experiences of pregnant women who drink and what influences their alco...

1035 married women workers in three modern textile mills in Anhui, China were surveyed to investigate the association of rotating shiftwork with low birth weight and preterm birth in 1992. Information on reproductive health, occupational exposure history, and other covariates including age at pregnancy, time and duration of leave from job since pregnancy, and mill location was obtained by train...

A 26-year-old parous woman presented with profuse vaginal bleeding. Obstetric history was P1L1A4, first pregnancy was terminated for molar pregnancy, second pregnancy was a term delivery by LSCS after 3 years, third and fourth pregnancies were unconfirmed abortions, fifth pregnancy was incomplete abortion at 8 week’s gestation, underwent D&E elsewhere, following which she had persistent vaginal...

Two independent guidelines on appropriate weight gain for Japanese pregnant women have been established in 1997 and 2006. This study aimed to evaluate changes in the amount of gestational weight gain in pregnant women, the birth weight of their neonates, and the incidence of complications of pregnancy and neonatal outcome in women who delivered at Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital. Between 198...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate whether occupational exposure among physiotherapists is associated with spontaneous abortion or congenital malformation in the offspring. DESIGN The study was a retrospective nested case-control study, where the pregnancy outcome data were based on the medical registers. SETTING All registered physiotherapists in Finland who had become...

PURPOSE Adenomyosis is a common, benign gynecological condition of the female reproductive tract characterized by heavy menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists are one of the medications used in adenomyosis treatment; however, their underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Moreover, it is difficult to obtain endometrial samples from women undergoi...