Although pregnancy and the first year of life are sensitive windows for child development, we know very little about the lived experiences of mothers livin
For the first time, I began to realize the seriousness of high blood cholesterol.(49)But equally important, I got a taste of what it is like to be a patient, to have tests done on me and to think of myself as sick. This was hard to take. ...
The risk of a woman developing a complication during pregnancy might be reduced. This is the rationale for antenatal screening programs. Unfortunately, the risk-approach to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity has not worked in practice because the vast majority of life-threatening obstetric compli...
The risk of a woman developing a complication during pregnancy might be reduced. This is the rationale for antenatal screening programs. Unfortunately, the risk-approach to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity has not worked in practice because the vast majority of life-threatening obstetric compli...
However, this low diet protein IUGR model is not representative of the situation in developed countries, as mothers are typically not severely protein- deprived. For this reason, in the present study we explore another animal model (natural IUGR) that does not involve severely limiting maternal ...