INTRODUCTION Prenatal care is considered an important tool for promoting a healthy lifestyle, but has not been studied as a predictor for maternal weight gain during pregnancy, especially in Romania, where evidence about pregnancy and nutrition is scarce. OBJECTIVE This study has aimed to explore the relationship between pre-gestational body mass index (BMI), adequacy of prenatal care and wei...

The scope of this article is to evaluate the association between adequate prenatal care and sociodemographic variables in Niterói in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It involved a cross-sectional study conducted between 2000 and 2009 evaluating 62,449 live births using data from the Brazilian Live Birth Information System (SINASC). Multivariate analysis by logistic regression was performed consider...

BACKGROUND We used population-based data to determine the public's views of prenatal and postnatal mental health and to identify predictors of those views. METHODS A computer-assisted telephone survey was conducted by the Population Health Laboratory (University of Alberta) with a random sample of participants from the province of Alberta, Canada. Respondents were eligible to participate if t...

Describes comparability of reporting of selected items common to the birth certificate and National Natality Survey questionnaires. Items include age and education of parents, number of previous children, number of fetal deaths, plurality, birth weight, length of pregnancy, and receipt of prenatal care. Querec, LindaJ. Comparability of reporting on birth certificates and national natality surve...

BACKGROUND Prenatal exposures to stress and physical toxins influence children's respiratory health, although few studies consider these factors together. OBJECTIVES We sought to concurrently examine the effects of prenatal community-level psychosocial (exposure to community violence [ECV]) and physical (air pollution) stressors on repeated wheeze in 708 urban children followed to age 2 years...

OBJECTIVE To identify socio-demographic factors, characteristics and pregnancy complications associated with elective cesarean section. METHODS Cross-sectional study. A total of 1,295 births in the first semester of 2012 in Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil, were evaluated in a large epidemiological study of maternal and child morbidity and mortality. This article compares women who had normal birt...

BACKGROUND Most mental disorders start in childhood and adolescence. Risk factors are prenatal and perinatal, genetic as well as environmental and family related. Research evidence is, however, insufficient to explain the life-course development of mental disorders. This study aims to provide evidence on factors affecting mental health in childhood and adolescence. DATA AND METHODS The 1987 F...

Background: Prenatal exposures to stress and physical toxins influence children’s respiratory health, although few studies consider these factors together. Objectives: We sought to concurrently examine the effects of prenatal community-level psychosocial (exposure to community violence [ECV]) and physical (air pollution) stressors on repeated wheeze in 708 urban children followed to age 2 years...

BACKGROUND Preterm birth (PTB) is a substantial health problem that accounts for significant infant morbidity and mortality and poses an economic burden to both individuals and the state of residence. The goal of this study was to identify maternal risk factors for PTB in New Mexico, a poor state with a unique ethnic background, in order to identify populations at increased risk that would bene...

Background: 79% of the pregnant women suffer from sleep disorders and 70% of pregnant women have some of the depression symptoms. These disorders are the result of physiological changes, hormonal, physical, pregnancy which occur from different causes and can affect disorders before, during and after childbirth be involved in causing depression and may be aggravated by disregarding health behavi...