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Developmental Origins of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

...n 1973 and 1975. They decided to first contact the mothers from maternity hospital records and then interview...th, with larger placentas, and they tended to have mothers who were heavier in late pregnancy. In contrast, women with an existing diagnosis of PCOS tended to ...

Twin pregnancy may be risky for the fetus

...mend that for such types of pregnancies, expectant mothers should opt for elective pre-term delivery after 32 weeks. This may lower the mortality risk associated with the fetuses before delivery. However researchers feel that more study is essential to find out more about the factors that increase the death ...

Low birth weight in babies may mean health risk for fathers

... cardiovascular diseases. This is as truer for the mothers as well as for the fathers. In a research done by...netical by nature. The report also points out that mothers may be at risk of death from cardiac problems more than fathers of babies of low birth weights. Ref...

Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury

...e condition of hypoxia ischemia in babies if their mothers have the juice when they are carrying them. Hypoxia ischemia is the condition of decreased blood flow and oxygen to the fetal brain that can cause complications during pregnancy, and brain injuries to babies born pre-term or before completing 34 week...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

...y. The amount of cigarette smoking in the pregnant mothers was classified as no smoking, low exposure which included those who smoked less than 10 cigarettes a day and high exposure which included those who smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day. In all 75 cases of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory ...

Consuming Fish During Pregnancy Boosts Child’s I

...arvard University has revealed that children whose mothers during pregnancy consumed// low-mercury fish coupl... week were more intelligent than children of those mothers who did not. Conversely it also stated that consumption of fish with high mercury content lowered...

Teaching parents to deal with behavior problems in children

...one surprise result was that children with younger mothers responded to interventions more than those with older mothers. Parents who were less harsh and critical also helped their children adept to the treatment procedures faster than parents who are disciplinarians. Researchers of the study feel that tre...

New clues to maternal aggressive behavior

...eived threat. This is more pronounced in lactating mothers than at any other species. Researchers also say that other than increasing the maternal protective instincts during the lactating phase, the oxytocin hormone also regulates the functions of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis that controls the anxie...

Premature Babies More Likely If Women Have Higher Protein Albumin In Urine

...umin to have premature babies. "If we know which mothers are most at risk of delivering early, we can target our efforts to the women who need it most," says Warnock. "Tracking urinary albumin looks like one way we can do that." Extracts from: http://www.kidney.org Medindia More Information on Albumin...

Revolutionary Simple Pregnancy Blood Test Can Save Both Mother And Child

...baby." Pre-eclampsia kills over 20'000 expectant mothers worldwide every year. Pre-eclampsia is unpredictable and can appear suddenly in about one in 12 pregnancies. The blood pressure shoots up in the mothers-to-be and can cause seizures or fits, stroke and kidney related complications. This can result in...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...r study on 25,000 women found that 66.9 percent of mothers undergoing caesarean went on to have another pregnancy, compared with 73.9 percent of women who had spontaneous deliveries, it said. They took an average of 36.3 months to conceive a second child, compared with 30.4 months taken by women who gave b...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

Low birth weight babies are likely to be born to mothers who have low levels of foliate// in their blood ac...ier generation Vitamin B, supplemented to pregnant mothers has been found to increase birth weight and improve the overall health status of the newborn. Me...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

Expectant mothers who have lower intake of folic acid during the fir... feel that this does not ensure that the expectant mothers get this very important vitamin in the earlier stages of gestation. This is important as this could ...

Breastfeeding Lowers Maternal Stress

...s Hospital Research Center in Montreal showed that mothers //who breastfeed their child are more equipped to ...uggested that breastfeeding is distressing for the mothers as well. Researchers feel that this is good for the mothers as such mothers will be able to concentr...

Breastfeeding Decline In Middle East Worries UN

...eastfeeding Week. "In fact, less than half of the mothers in the region exclusively breastfeed their infants...of breast milk is nutritional. Doctors’ advice the mothers of newborn babies to only exclusively breast-feed their babies till they are of six-month age. For...

Vitamin B12 Deficiency In Vegans And Elderly

...y cause dementia or anaemia. Breast-fed infants of mothers with a B12 deficiency are at risk for severe developmental abnormalities and irreversible neurological damage. Apart from fortified breakfast cereals, the only reliable dietary sources of vitamin B12 are animal-derived products. Therefore the most a...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

...found to be similar between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, and among siblings. However, the length was not different between fathers and sons an...

Naturally Occurring Hormone Can Lead To Miscarriage

...but was thyroid resistant. Results showed affected mothers had an increased rate of miscarriage or a higher chance of having an underdeveloped child if they carried their baby to term. Thus researchers say their data shows, for the first time in humans, that high levels of thyroid hormone can exert a direct...

Birth Defects Caused By Drugs Used For Epilepsy

...dren between the ages of 6 and 16 who were born to mothers with epilepsy and tests were performed on both the mother and child to produce a neuropsychological profile for each child. It was seen that 41 children exposed to valproic acid during pregnancy had an average verbal IQ score of 84, while other grou...

Vitamins Found To Influence Birth Weight

...s thought to be the first to link Folate levels in mothers in early pregnancy with birth weight. Researchers from UK, examined nearly 1,000 women and their newborn babies and found that women in early pregnancy with lower levels of Folate were more likely to have a lighter and less healthy baby. Researcher...

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