Gestational in Biological News

Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth, Wake Forest research shows

... brain defects as well as information on the gestational age at birth of the subject. For comparison, ... in the autopsy cases with brain defects, the mean gestational age was 36.6 weeks, whereas the data showed a mean gestational age of 39.9 weeks for infants with no defects and ...

Effects of maternal exercise on fetal breathing movements

... routine. The MCG was measured between 24-36 weeks gestational age. Between 36-38 weeks gestational age, breathing movements were identified using ... outcomes in children born to women at risk for gestational diabetes. ...

Effects of maternal exercise on fetal breathing movements

... routine. The MCG was measured between 24-36 weeks gestational age. Between 36-38 weeks gestational age, breathing movements were identified using ... outcomes in children born to women at risk for gestational diabetes. ...

Gaining too much weight during pregnancy nearly doubles risk of having a heavy baby

... have heavy babies than women who are treated for gestational diabetes. "This is one more good reason to ... women who gained more than 40 pounds and also had gestational diabetes; nearly 30 percent of them had heavy ... reduced-- to only 13 percent-- when women with gestational diabetes gained less than 40 pounds. "The ...

Severe gestational hypertension may protect against testicular cancer

... PHILADELPHIA Women who experience severe gestational hypertension may give birth to boys at lower risk ... in Sweden, said the protective effect of gestational hypertension may be due to the hormones that are ... are lower in pregnancies that develop severe gestational hypertension or preeclampsia, and this lack of ...

News from the October 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association

... Association include: Dietary Restraint and gestational Weight Gain Learner-Centered Nutrition Education ... media@eatright.org . Dietary Restraint and gestational Weight Gain Women who diet "habitually" prior ... The researchers note that excessive gestational weight gain "is of concern because of its ...

Mouse model developed at UT Southwestern mimics hyperglycemia, aids in diabetes research

... 1 diabetes, hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and gestational diabetes. The animal model is described ... conditions of temporary hyperglycemia such as gestational diabetes, a condition in which pregnant women who have never had diabetes develop hyperglycemia. gestational diabetes usually disappears after pregnancy, but ...

Mom's obesity during conception phase may set the stage for offspring's obesity risk

... investigators studied whether fetal exposure to gestational obesity leads to a self-reinforcing viscious ... to exclude parental genetic influences, match gestational weight gain, limit the exposure of maternal ... on a regular basis. To examine the long-term gestational effects of maternal obesity on the offspring, ...

Researchers find evidence linking stress caused by the Sept. 11 disaster with low birth weights

... after 9/11 was due to babies being born early. gestational age data were provided to researchers in ... researchers were hampered by unreliable data on gestational age, based on last reported menstrual period, and ... reasons for LBW. I think that the measures of gestational age on birth certificates are often not accurate, ...

Study identifies warning signs of pregnancy danger

... Black said. Also known as preeclampsia and gestational hypertension, pregnancy-induced hypertension ... your body, and you dont know what to about it. gestational hypertension is diagnosed when there is high ... in the urine. Preeclampsia is more serious than gestational hypertension, where the kidney leaks protein. ...

Birth records hold pancreatic cancer clue

... journal BMC Medicine, women with a history of gestational diabetes had a higher risk of developing ... records revealed 410 women were diagnosed with gestational diabetes in one or more of their pregnancies. Of the 410 women with gestational diabetes, five eventually developed pancreatic ...

ICSI or IVF: Babies born from frozen embryos do just as well

... multiple ICSI pregnancies. Outcomes at the time of birth for Apgar scores, gestational ages, birth weights and congenital malformations were similar for both IVF ... 28.7% multiple births) and 87.5% (19.2% multiple births) respectively. gestational ages and birth weights were similar between the two groups, but the ...

Study suggests obese women should not gain weight

... less weight, had fewer cesarean deliveries, were less likely to develop gestational diabetes, and retained less weight after they delivered than women in the ... pregnancy. Adding to her skepticism was the fact that women who develop gestational diabetes are routinely put on diets that effectively limit weight gain, ...

Who are you kidding?

... women who thought they were overweight had twice the odds of excessive gestational weight gain." The authors studied 1537 women enrolled in Project Viva, ... to follow pregnancy weight gain guidelines. Herring said, "As excessive gestational weight gain increases the risk of poor maternal and child outcomes, ...

Pre-eclampsia may be autoimmune disease

... "Pre-eclampsia is one of the leading causes of prematurity and Small For gestational Age (SGA) infants. Many of these babies are born with underdeveloped lungs ... being obese; having twins, triplets or other multiples; and developing gestational diabetes. ...

Bacterial infections in premature babies more common than previously realized

... placental inflammation than those with negative cultures. The earlier the gestational age at delivery, the higher the rate of a positive umbilical cord blood ... we question whether treatment of women likely to deliver an early gestational age infant with an antibiotic effective against these organisms might ...

Safer, more accurate radiation therapy for expecting mothers

... Xu and his team created three 3-D models of pregnant females at various gestational stages: three months, six months, and nine months. The team built the ... whole-body dosimetry models: pregnant females at the ends of three gestational periods RPI-P3, -P6, and -P9, published in the most recent issue of the ...

Chemicals in common consumer products may play a role in pre-term births

... phthalates cause reproductive and developmental toxicity in animals. A couple of human studies have reported associations between phthalates and gestational age, but this is the first known study to look at the relationship between phthalates and premature births, Meeker says. "We looked at these ...

USC researchers present diabetes findings at American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions

... 6 (Session: Beta Cell Mass Adaptive Responses to Metabolic Demand; How Do Beta Cells Respond to Increased Demand in People? Lessons from Pregnancy, gestational Diabetes, and the Evolution of Type 2 Diabetes). Hypoglycemia Casey Donovan, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology and biology, will discuss his ...

New guidelines to fight obesity in pregnancy issued

... are at greater risk for several complications including: Infertility Labor and delivery complications, including c-sections Hypertension, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia Delivery of large-for-gestational-age infants Women who are underweight also have a greater risk of having a premature ...

Report updates guidelines on how much weight women should gain during pregnancy

... this online calculator: www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ . The ranges for each BMI category reflect that many factors besides maternal weight and gestational weight gain affect outcomes and the reality that healthy babies are born to women across a spectrum of pregnancy weight changes. Studies ...

Opposites attract -- how genetics influences humans to choose their mates

... children is important when choosing a mate." The scientists believe that their findings will help understanding of conception, fertility, and gestational failures. Research has already shown that couples with similar MHC genes had longer intervals between births, which could imply early, unperceived ...

Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight

... at birth compared to women whose ancestors have not lived at high altitude. European infants are three times more likely to be born small for their gestational age compared to Andean babies. The same is true when comparing groups of women in other areas of the world, according to Dr. Julian, the study's ...

Study finds 'rescue course' of antenatal steroids improves outcome in premature babies

... in respiratory distress syndrome, ventilator support, and surfactant use. When all neonates were included in the analysis (regardless of the gestational age at delivery), a significant reduction in composite morbidity in the "rescue steroid" group was still demonstrated (32.1% vs. 42.6%). ...

New blood test for Down syndrome

... on the women. Quake said the shotgun-sequencing system is not only safer than invasive techniques but can also make a determination at an earlier gestational age, around 12 weeks. The earlier the couple knows the status of the pregnancy, Quake observed, the better they will be prepared for whatever ...

Monitoring outcomes of suicide attempts in pregnancy can better assess drug dangers

... exposed children were evaluated with cognitive and behavioural tests as they grew up. The test results were compared with results for siblings whose gestational periods were normal. The researchers recorded occurances of congenital abnormalities, retardation in fetal growth (the most sensitive indicator of a ...

Common treatment to delay labor decreases preterm infants' risk for cerebral palsy

... and March 2004. The women were randomly assigned to receive either placebo or magnesium sulfate. They all had similar characteristics, including gestational age (24 to 31 weeks) at randomization and risk factors for preterm birth. Eighty-seven percent of the women had experienced preterm membrane rupture. ...

Radiation, nanotechnology, health care and more

... the fetus from CT exams, we developed a virtual CT scanner and used the previously developed pregnant female models representing 3-, 6-, and 9-month gestational periods to evaluate the fetal doses. The organ dose data that can be generated can be used to assess the risk to the fetus and the mother, thus ...

Pregnant patients lose out in breast cancer treatment; a new approach is needed

... of diagnostic procedures, outcome of the child five years later, and outcome of the breast cancer five years after diagnosis. The median gestational age at the time of diagnosis was 21 weeks, and the median age of the women 33 years. Some patients chose not to continue the pregnancy on learning ...

Exercise during pregnancy leads to a healthier heart in moms- and babies-to-be

... fetuses that had been exposed to maternal exercise. The heart rates among non-exposed fetuses were higher, regardless of the fetal activity or the gestational age. at each stage of gestation the differences between the fetal heart rates of the two groups were statistically significant (p the ...

Molecules in blood foretell development of preeclampsia

... week of pregnancy for women who later developed gestational hypertension--hypertension without protein in the ... Levels rose still further after the onset of gestational hypertension. "This finding suggests that gestational hypertension is a mild form of preeclampsia," ...

MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development

... radiology at MGH and the Martinos Center. Of the subjects scanned, eight were newborn, mostly premature babies ranging from about 30 to 40 weeks of gestational age, and three were from children aged two, three and seven years. Grant scanned these infants and children to assess possible brain injury and found ...

Like salty food? Chances are you had low blood sodium when you were born

... were not predictors of childhood sodium intake. Conclusions The researchers concluded that low sodium blood serum in infants ?not gestational age, birthweight or neonatal diuretic treatment ?predicts an increased intake of dietary sodium later in life. As neonatal serum sodium is a marker ...

Advance helps explain stem cell behavior

... instance, virtually all of the types of cells are formed in 12 days, during what would correspond to a fraction of the "first trimester" of the human gestational period, as genetic mechanisms guide the "readout" of DNA and control the formation of different types of cells. The cell types themselves are created ...

US infant mortality rate fails to improve

... in the rate of infant mortality, a key indicator of child health, including working to reduce preterm and low birthweight births." Birthweight and gestational age are two major predictors of infant health and survival. In 2003 birth defects, as well as prematurity and low birthweight remained the leading ...

Today's babies are fatter babies

... development, even before birth," says Gillman. "These efforts should include avoiding smoking and excessive weight gain during pregnancy, preventing gestational diabetes, and promoting breastfeeding, all of which researchers have shown to be associated with reductions in childhood overweight." ...

Prenatal exposure to marine toxin causes lasting damage

... animals had less functional reserve with which to solve memory tasks, the researchers said. "Brief, low-dose domoic acid exposure in rats during gestational development results in subtle neurobehavioral impairments that persist into adolescence and adulthood," Levin said. "Furthermore, long-lasting ...

Researchers Find New Technique To Identify Fetal Genetic Material From Amniotic Fluid

... such as for certain proteins. "Preliminary analysis suggests that gene expression changes can be detected in fetuses of different sexes, gestational age, and disease status," the authors report. "Cell-free mRNA in amniotic fluid appears to originate from the fetus and not the placenta." In ...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

... role of genetics, lifestyle and other factors." The study found that cryptorchidism was associated with low birth weight, preterm delivery, small gestational weight and other congenital abnormalities of the genitalia. An interesting significant risk factor was the father's weight; babies born to ...