Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate associations between pregnancy outcomes and prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain among pregnant women who regularly attended health centers of Kazerun,Fars, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive study records from 5172 pregnant women were considered in this study, based on the methodology criteria. Women were distributed across 4...

Introduction. Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths and the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. Three-quarters of them could be saved with current, cost-effective interventions. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors of preterm birth in a secondary care hospital in Southern India. Methods. In the case-control study, records of 153 anten...

Spontaneous preterm birth includes birth that follows preterm labor, preterm spontaneous rupture of membranes, and cervical insufficiency, but does not include indicated preterm delivery for maternal or fetal conditions (5). The preterm birth rate (birth at less than 37 completed weeks of gestation per 100 total births) increased more than 20% from 1990 to 2006. However, decreases in birth rate...

Premature rupture of membrane (PROM) is produced when amniotic membranes tear before labor onset and recorded in around 8 % full-term gestations. Preterm PROMs (PPROMs) take place the 37th week gestation, with an incidence 2–4 pregnancies, it associated higher maternal perinatal morbidity mortality, mainly related to infectious processes prematurity. Among complications, which include postpartu...

OBJECTIVE To verify whether body mass index (BMI) classification proposed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is valid in Japanese women. METHOD A study was conducted in 97,157 women with singleton pregnancies registered in the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) Successive Pregnancy Birth Registry System between January 2013 and December 2013, to examine pregnancy outcomes in fo...

This study aims to explore potential clinical relevance of sHLA-G to premature rupture of membrane. 75 samples of pregnancy were enrolled, including patients with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), patients with term premature rupture of membranes (TPROM) and normal pregnancy women. Level of sHLA-G in multiple sites were examined with ELISA. Lymphocytes were isolated from periphera...

METHOD(S) : In this prospective cohort study conducted over a 8 months period (January to August 2005) 416 antenatal women admitted with threatened preterm labor and in preterm labor, with or without rupture of membranes, were recruited. They were followed up from admission till delivery and discharge. Gestational age at onset of preterm labor, associated risk factors, response to tocolytics if...

PURPOSE to compare the expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in ovular membranes with premature rupture (MPR) and with opportune rupture; to verify the association between the expression of the TNF-alpha in ovular membranes and the degree of chorioamnionitis, correlating the expression of the TNF-alpha and the membranes' time of rupture. METHODS ovular membranes from 31 partur...

BACKGROUND Morbidity and mortality of preterm babies are important issues in perinatal medicine. In developed countries, preterm delivery is the cause of about 70% of mortality and 75% of morbidity in the neonatal period, respectively. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for preterm labor and the outcomes, in terms of perinatal mortality and morbidity at the time...