Objective: To provide the latest and most promising evidence on the prevalence and determinants for folic acid supplementation in pregnant women in Japan, including differences in prevalence between interview years and determinants across regions.Materials and methods: The study participants were enrolled from 15 regional centers across Japan betwe...
Published in Development and psychopathology
Maternal thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy may contribute to offspring neurobehavioral disorders. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between maternal thyroid function during pregnancy and offspring depression and anxiety. Data were taken from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. A total of 2,920 mother-child pairs wer...
Objective: Fetal growth in the first trimester is estimated by measuring the crown to rump length of the fetus (CRL). There are no data on the relation between fetal growth and fat distribution in pregnant women. The objective was to investigate the influence of fat distribution in pregnant women on fetal growth in the first trimester of pregnancy....
Purpose: To assess if pregnancies in women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at a higher risk for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes.Materials and methods: A retrospective cohort study was carried out using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - National Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS) from the USA. All births that took place from 2004 to 2...
Published in Journal of attention disorders
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of, and maternal characteristics associated with, ADHD medication use before and during pregnancy, and associations between early pregnancy ADHD medication use and risk for 12 selected birth defects. Method: We used data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1998-2011)...
Published in Medicinski glasnik : official publication of the Medical Association of Zenica-Doboj Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aim To identify a rate of macrosomic births in a one-year review, associated maternal characteristics and pregnancy outcome. Methods This one-year retrospective review included all macrosomic deliveries at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Cantonal Hospital Zenica between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018. The data were collecte...
We studied the influence of pregnancy exercise on maternal/offspring cardiometabolic health until delivery and at follow-up. We pooled data from two randomized controlled trials from our group that were performed following the same methodology (one unpublished). We also collected follow-up data de novo from the participants of both trials and their...
The embryo of an oocyte donation (OD) pregnancy is completely allogeneic to the mother, which leads to a more serious challenge for the maternal immune system to tolerize the fetus. It is thought that macrophages are essential in maintaining a healthy pregnancy, by acting in immunomodulation and spiral arterial remodeling. OD pregnancies represent ...
Killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) 2DL4 (CD158d) was previously thought to be a human NK cell-specific protein. Mast cells are involved in allergic reactions via their KIT-mediated and FcɛRI-mediated responses. We recently detected the expression of KIR2DL4 in human cultured mast cells established from peripheral blood of healthy volunteers ...
