OBJECTIVE To investigate maternal cardiac adaptation in the first trimester of pregnancy with increasing maternal parity. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study carried out at the antenatal clinic of a teaching hospital. We examined 4689 pregnant women at 11 + 0 to 13 + 6 weeks of gestation, performing two-dimensional echocardiography of the maternal left ventricle. There were 2352 parous a...

OBJECTIVE To compare fertility rates in women with RA, other chronic arthritides (OCAs) and JIA with reference women from the general population. METHODS Each woman from a Norwegian patient registry was matched by year of birth with 100 reference women randomly selected from the National Population Registry. Data linkage of patients and references with the Medical Birth Registry of Norway (MB...

BACKGROUND The association between birth position and obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) in spontaneous vaginal deliveries is unclear. METHODS The study was based on the Stockholm-Gotland Obstetric Database (Sweden) from Jan 1(st) 2008 to Oct 22(nd) 2014 and included 113 279 singleton spontaneous vaginal births with no episiotomy. We studied risk of OASIS with respect to the following bi...

background. Maintaining an adequate health status and appropriate lifestyles during pregnancy is of great importance to prevent adverse outcomes for both mother and baby. The present study aimed to assess the nutritional status, socio-demographic features, lifestyle behaviors and dietary habits of pregnant women in Spain, and to identify the influence of parity on these profiles. Methods. This ...

BACKGROUND This study was performed to compare changes in urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms and pelvic floor structure during pregnancy between nulliparous and multiparous women. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was performed among pregnant women from July 2016 to January 2017. In total, 358 pregnant women from two hospitals underwent an interview and pelvic floor transperineal ultrasound as...

OBJECTIVE To assess 3-year data on the efficacy and safety of a new 52-mg levonorgestrel intrauterine contraceptive (LNG20) designed for up to 7 years use. STUDY DESIGN Nulliparous and parous women aged 16-45 years at enrollment with regular menstrual cycles and requesting contraception were enrolled in an open-label, partially randomized trial to evaluate LNG20. The primary outcome was pregn...

BACKGROUND To study pregnancy and delivery outcomes in nulliparous women with severe FOC (fear of childbirth), all of whom had received routine treatment for their FOC and to make comparisons with a healthy reference group of nulliparous women.To study the possible relationship between the number of FOC-treatment sessions and the delivery method. METHODS All nulliparous women with a diagnose ...