background and aim: factors such as weight, diet, cigarette smoking and unprescribed drug use, and also environmental pollutants affect maternal health and the birth of the healthy neonates. the aim of this study was to investigate women's lifestyle during the preconception period in kalat, iran. materials & methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 118 married wome...

Preconception care is an important aspect of pregnancy-related care. Unfortunately, it is often ignored or minimized by both the patient and the provider. This article provides a framework for preconception care by offering the mnemonic "VITAL MOM." It is hoped that this offering will assist the clinician in optimizing pregnancy outcome.

Cigarette smoke has been linked to adult myeloid leukemia; however, the association between parental smoking and childhood leukemia remains unclear. Parental smoking and the risk of childhood leukemia were examined in the Northern California Childhood Leukemia Study, a case-control study, between 1995 and 2002. The present analysis included 327 acute childhood leukemia cases (281 acute lymphobl...

BACKGROUND To study the knowledge of a large city population on preconception folic acid supplementation and intention to seek for preconception care within an urban perinatal health program. METHODS Cross-sectional surveys run in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2007 and annually from 2009 to 2014. A random sample of residents aged between 16 and 85 years was taken each year from the municipal...

BACKGROUND Preconception carrier screening for cystic fibrosis (CF) is usually performed using ethnically targeted panels of selected mutations. This has been recently challenged by the use of expanded, ethnically indifferent, pan-population panels. Israel is characterized by genetically heterogeneous populations carrying a wide range of CFTR mutations. To assess the potential of expanding the ...