BACKGROUND Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) poses negative impact on mothers and their children. It is important to understand the modifiable lifestyle factors associated with excessive GWG during pregnancy to guide future public health practice. AIM To investigate the association between physical activity during pregnancy and GWG of Chinese urban pregnant women. METHODS A pregnant w...

Background: Back pain in pregnant women the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, if not treated immediately, will greatly disturb comfort of can cause complications such as moderate to severe anxiety due being able adapt their back pain. Several factors are associated with occurrence women. This study aims prove that affect second third trimester 
 Methods: research was a cross sectional design. The sa...

PURPOSES To describe the process of gait initiation of pregnant women and to compare the behavior of the pressure center in the three trimesters of pregnancy. METHODS Fifty-seven low-risk pregnant women were evaluated, aged 18 to 35 years, selected for convenience location during the three trimesters of pregnancy. The women were divided into three groups of 19 subjects each, according to gest...

I is essential for thyroid hormone synthesis and neurological development. Various changes occur in thyroid hormone metabolism during pregnancy and I requirements increase significantly. The purpose of this study was to investigate I status among pregnant women in Trabzon, formerly a severely I-deficient area but shown to have become I sufficient following mandatory iodisation of table salt bas...

BACKGROUND Maternal thyroid dysfunction is common during pregnancy, and physiological changes during pregnancy can lead to the overdiagnosis of hyperthyroidism and misdiagnosis of hypothyroidism with nongestation-specific reference intervals. Our aim was to compare sequential with nonsequential methods for the evaluation of thyroid function in pregnant women. METHODS We tested pregnant women ...

OBJECTIVE in midtrimester fetuses the principal site of hematopoiesis is the liver. In hematopoietic organs, stromal cells such as fibroblasts, epithelial cells, and macrophage-like cells develop networks to maintain hematopoiesis, i.e. hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal, proliferation, and growth, by interaction with hematopoietic progenitor cells. ECM glycoproteins produced by the stromal c...

Prenatal stress has been seen as a reason for reproductive failures in pig offspring mostly originated or mediated by changed maternal functions. Experiments were conducted in pregnant gilts (n=32) to characterize effects of elevated maternal glucocorticoids on the secretion of reproductive hormones (LH, progesterone) during the 1st (EXP 1), 2nd (EXP 2) and 3rd (EXP 3) trimester of pregnancy (T...

OBJECTIVE We examined the intake of dietary micronutrients of immigrant Arabian pregnant women in Greece, in order to investigate the possible factors influencing food intake and affecting the overall nutritional profile. METHODS A dietary assessment of 497 immigrant Arabian pregnant women, admitted to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Outpatient Clinic, Tzaneion General Hospital, Pir...