Prenatal Influences and Endothelial Dysfunction

Prenatal influences and endothelial dysfunction: a link between reduced placental perfusion and preeclampsia.

Hypertension during pregnancy when associated with new-onset proteinuria is termed “preeclampsia.”1,2 Preeclampsia is thought to initiate with improper remodeling of the uterine spiral arteries leading to reduced placental/ fetal perfusion and subsequent extensive dysfunction of the maternal vascular endothelium.1,2 Reduced placental perfusion, however, may not always result in preeclampsia.1 A...

Prenatal and Early Postnatal Influences

may be related to the selective advantages of maturity at birth, particularly, in man, the development of immunity to infectious disease. Verbal reasoning scores recorded in the 11-plus examination provide no evidence that the retarded prenatal growth associated with prolongation of gestation affects measured intelligence. There are considerable score differences in a general population of birt...

Prenatal meditation influences infant behaviors.

Meditation is important in facilitating health. Pregnancy health has been shown to have significant consequences for infant behaviors. In view of limited studies on meditation and infant temperament, this study aims to explore the effects of prenatal meditation on these aspects. The conceptual framework was based on the postulation of positive relationships between prenatal meditation and infan...

Environmental Influences on Prenatal Development

Similarly, new proposals relative to vaccination with modified live viruses, such as those which have been devised by Koprowski and Sabin, although still in the research phase, receive a good review of the situation up to that date. A third new subject, which has actually only come into being in the last four or five years, is found in the papers dealing with the whole new family of enteric sir...

Endothelial dysfunction and diabetes.