Published in Journal of attention disorders
Objective: ADHD is associated with risky sexual behavior and early pregnancy, but few studies have examined mechanisms of risk linking childhood ADHD to early pregnancy. The present study utilized data from the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD to examine potential mechanisms that may account for the association between childhood ADHD and becoming...
Published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the new coronavirus responsible for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), characterized by acute respiratory distress syndrome and atypical pneumonia. In non-pregnant women, studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 causes cardiac injury, which can result in myocardial inflammation a...
Published in Journal of perinatal medicine
Objectives The burden of undocumented SARS-Cov-2 infections in Portuguese pregnant women is unknown. At our institution, routine COVID-19 testing was implemented from 19th of March on to all pregnant women who were admitted for delivery. The purpose of the study was to estimate the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in our obstetric population admitted for ...
Published in Data in Brief
The COVID-ASSESS questionnaire (COVID-19 related Anxiety and StreSs in prEgnancy, poSt-partum and breaStfeeding) was developed and distributed by CiaoLapo Foundation, an Italian charity for healthy pregnancy and perinatal loss support. Data were collected during phase 1 and phase 2 of COVID-19 lockdown in Italy (March, April and May 2020). The fina...
Published in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology Mfm
Background Mental health disorders (MHD) are becoming more recognized in pregnancy. Whether MHD are associated with health services utilization postpartum is incompletely understood. Objective To investigate postpartum emergency department (ED) use within 30 days of delivery among women with preexisting MHD during pregnancy. Study Design This was a...
Published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Background – There is a paucity of data describing the effects of COVID-19, especially in asymptomatic patients, on placental pathology. Although the pathophysiology of COVID-19 is not completely understood, there is emerging evidence that it causes a severe systemic inflammatory response and results in a hypercoagulable state with widespread micro...
Published in Human reproduction update
Registry data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) show an increase of 40% in IUI and 377% in IVF cases using donor sperm between 2006 and 2016. The objective of this study was to establish whether pregnancies conceived using donor sperm are at higher risk of obstetric and perinatal complications than those conceived with pa...
Published in Open Heart
Objectives We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that compared levels of molecular biomarkers in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) to those in healthy pregnant and postpartum women to: (1) assess the evidence for prolactin (PRL) metabolism in PPCM, (2) ascertain the evidence for biomarkers of iron deficiency in PPC...
Uvod: V sodobnem času je kajenje cigaret velik dejavnik tveganja za javno zdravje in pri ljudeh povzroča psihološko in biološko odvisnost. Kajenje cigaret v nosečnosti je vse pogostejše, povezujemo ga tudi z več razvojnimi zapleti ploda s povečanim tveganjem za kratkoročne in dolgoročne posledice. To vpliva tudi na zdravje nosečnic in nastanek neka...
Published in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology Mfm
