This population-based cohort study was conducted to compare pregnancy complications and outcome among nulliparous, low (1-5) and high (> or = 6) parity women. Women who registered for antenatal care and gave birth in Guru District, Zimbabwe, between January 1995 and June 1998 were classified into groups by parity. The women were compared for baseline characteristics, utilisation of health facil...

OBJECTIVE To assess the risk of borderline ovarian cancer among infertile women treated with fertility drugs. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Nationwide data obtained from public registers and postal questionnaires. PATIENT(S) All Danish women <60 years old with borderline ovarian cancer during the period 1989-1994 and randomly selected population controls. The analysis included 231 ca...

BACKGROUND The Active Management of Risk in Pregnancy at Term (AMOR-IPAT) protocol has been associated in several studies with significant reductions of group cesarean delivery rate. Present within each of these studies were nulliparous women with risk factors for cephalopelvic disproportion. Risk factors for cephalopelvic disproportion in nulliparous women are especially important because they...

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a major clinical burden affecting 25% of women, with vaginal delivery a major contributing factor. We hypothesised that increasing parity weakens the vagina by altering the extracellular matrix proteins and smooth muscle thereby leading to POP vulnerability. We used a modified POP-quantification (POP-Q) system and a novel pressure sensor to measure vaginal wall we...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of childbirth delivery method on vaginal pressure and abdominal thickness during the Valsalva maneuver (VAL). [Subjects] Thirty healthy female volunteers (26-39 years of age) were selected for this research. Their delivery histories were: nulliparous 10, vaginal delivery 10, and Cesarean delivery 10. None of the participants had a hi...

physiologists have shown that increased fluids improve skeletal muscle performance in prolonged exercise.typical orders provide for 125 ml of intravenous fluids per hour in patients taking limited oral fluids during labor. our purpose in this study was to determine whether increased intravenous fluids affect the progress of labor. in a prospective randomized institutional clinical trial, one-hu...

OBJECTIVES Previous studies indicate that nulliparous women (i.e., women having no previous births) are at higher risk for adverse birth outcomes than multiparous women (i.e., women having had at least one previous birth). We examined whether part of the difference in adverse outcome rates is attributable to nulliparous women with poor pregnancy outcomes being less likely (through choice or fec...

We evaluated the effects of nulliparous, primiparous, and multiparous conditions on estrus pregnancy rates in females that did not show but were treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) at time timed artificial insemination (TAI). Nelore (n = 531) allocated according to following categories: nulliparous 144), primiparous 132), 255). The animals received a conventional TAI protocol, ex...

AIM To assess whether the introduction of episiotomy scissors specially designed to achieve a cutting angle of 60°, EPISCISSORS-60(®), in two hospitals in the UK would result in a reduction in obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) in nulliparous women. METHODS A structured training program for all doctors and midwives provided a theoretical framework around OASIS including risk factors an...

background : zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is a neglected tropical disease prevailed in many rural areas of 17 out of 31 provinces in iran. the main vector of the disease is phlebotomus papatasi and the causative agent is leishmania major in zcl foci of iran. in the current study we investigated the validity of accessory glands secre­tions as an indicator to recognize parous from nulli...