When manufacture of an inexpensive drug that may prevent preterm labor is discontinued because of economies of scale and then reintroduced at a significant price increase, it raises questions not only of public health, but also of good corporate citizenship, regulatory authority, and the ability of...
7 Two important questions remain unanswered. First, what is the specificity of the association? Most studies to date have investigated the relationship between prenatal and perinatal complications and schizophrenia,8-11 but few have examined the relationship with other adult-onset psychiatric diagnoses. ...
patients who received low-dose aspirin prophylaxis for different indications, the risk for sPTB was decreased.11–21 The mechanism responsible for initiating term or preterm parturition among humans is largely unknown, although there is a common inflammatory pathway that is shared by spontaneous term ...
Analytic Framework: Screening for Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnant Adolescents and Women to Prevent Preterm Delivery View LargeDownload Evidence reviews for the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) use an analytic framework to visually display key questions addressed by the review to allow the ...
29 Patients had a monthly checkup with a practitioner (obstetrician or midwife) and up to 36 weeks of amenorrhea. The final follow-up occurred in July 2019. The practices and the clinical decision-making regarding management of obstetric complications, labor, and delivery were comparable and ...
Indeed, we show here for the first time that patients who enter labor spontaneously preterm without infection have a blunted relaxation response to NO-mediated relaxation, suggesting that NO cannot be a tocolytic, and that the mechanism of NO action may be involved in the pathophysiology of ...
The intended audience for this activity is obstetricians, gynecologists, family medicine physicians, internists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Learning Objective Upon successful completion of this activity, participants should be better able to diagnose and treat preterm labo...
Summary of Evidence Key Questions 1 Through 6 View LargeDownload Supplement. eTable 1. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) Table and MESH Terms Search eTable 2. Air Pollution and Preterm Birth eTable 3. Air Pollution and Low Birth Weight eTable 4. Air...
Physicians always feel a need to do something for their patients, and few people ask questions of physicians. This situation may have resulted in physicians' failure to overcome inertia [17]. Another reason may be related to patients and their family. Long-term tocolysis for preterm birth has ...
for IQ, given that intellectual disability (ID) is increased among infants born preterm.1However, as ID is a common co-morbidity of ASD even among infants not born preterm the utility of excluding these patients probably gives an underestimate of the true rates of ASD in those born preterm....