BACKGROUND Preeclampsia (PE) is a serious idiopathic disease posing a threat to both mothers and fetuses' lives during pregnancy, whose main diagnostic criteria include hypertension with proteinuria. However, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) updated the diagnostic criteria for PE and reduced the diagnostic value of proteinuria for patients with PE. Qualitative analysis...

Short sleep duration, poor sleep quality, and insomnia frequently characterize sleep in pregnancy during all three trimesters. We aimed: (i) to review the clinical evidence of the association between conditions of sleep loss during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes; and (ii) to discuss the potential pathophysiological mechanisms that may be involved. A systematic search of cross-sectiona...

BACKGROUND Data on birth outcome in women diagnosed with cancer before, during, or shortly after pregnancy are very sparse. The purpose of this review was to summarize the existing epidemiologic evidence of the adverse effect of breast cancer, cutaneous malignant melanoma, and Hodgkin's disease on birth outcome. METHODS The MEDLINE database was used to review the literature systematically. St...

a casual comparative study was made to determine the effect of pregnant women's working conditions on   pregnancy outcome (fetal death, gestational age and birth weight).   600 women, delivered or treated for spontaneous abortion in eleven hospitals of tehran, were interviewed, 200   were working women (the study group) and 400 housewives (the control group).   for collecting information a...