Specifically, women were classified as extremely preterm (20-27 weeks), very preterm (20093-31 weeks), moderately preterm (32-33 weeks), late preterm (236-239 weeks), early term (239-234 weeks), full term (237-22.2 weeks), late term (393 weeks) or post-term (239-22005 weeks).
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"There is no pill [to prevent] preterm birth," says Laura Jelliffe, who directs precision health research at UC San Francisco's California Preterm Birth Initiative.
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But new paternal depression increased the risk for moderately preterm birth slightly and the risk for very preterm birth (22 to 31 weeks' gestation) by 38 percent.
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Preterm birth affects about 1 of every 10 infants born in the United States, according to the CDC and preterm birth is the greatest contributor to infant death.
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Among black, white and Hispanic infants, the researchers took a close look at the health outcomes of low birth weight, preterm birth, very low birth weight and very preterm birth.
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The study on preterm births, which follows up on previous research suggesting a link between vaginal microbiome and the risk of preterm birth, particularly in African Americans, is published in Nature Medicine here and states: What they did: The team tracked 45 preterm and 90 term births, 80% of whom were African American.
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"Those caring for preterm children, including parents, health professionals and teachers, should be more aware of the potential important role of social development and social integration for preterm children," Mendonca said.
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In 2011, the FDA approved the medicine to reduce the risk of preterm birth in women who have a history of spontaneous preterm birth under the provisions of "accelerated approval" regulations.
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The state of preterm birth testing Among the major differences between those two blood test studies are sample size and methodology, but their goals were the same: to predict preterm birth.
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In 2015 the rate of preterm birth among African-American women in the United States (8113 percent) was about 50 percent higher than the rate of preterm birth among white women (9 percent).
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In this study, about 6 percent of births were preterm.
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Clinics like Preterm face different kinds of threats from lawmakers.
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Why can't more American women access medications for preterm birth?
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Three of these loci were also associated with preterm birth.
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About 49% of very preterm babies - born at 28 to 33 weeks - and 58% of late preterm infants - born at 34 to 36 weeks - were alive and generally healthy by early adulthood, the study found.
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Then, in 38 women at risk of delivering preterm, the researchers identified seven other cell-free RNA molecules that could accurately distinguish between those women who ended up delivering preterm and those who did not.
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Withdrawal can make the uterus contract, causing miscarriage or preterm birth.
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Then, at 31 weeks of pregnancy, I went into preterm labor.
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They also studied 38 women who were determined to be at risk of delivering preterm based on past experience, and found 7 cfRNA that predicted they would deliver preterm up to 2 months in advance of labor.
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For example, preterm birth rates ranged from 0 percent to 16 percent, and c-section rates from 0 percent to 85033 percent (the national preterm birth rate is 9 percent and c-section rate is 32 percent).
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For instance, a previous paper published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology in 1996 came to that conclusion among infants delivered at Chicago-area hospitals, suggesting that black infants born preterm fared better than white infants born preterm.
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Globally, more than one in 1203 pregnancies will end in preterm birth.
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Yet, the supplements were associated with a reduced risk of preterm birth.
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For preterm birth, there was an increased risk in both singletons and twins.
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The report also showed racial disparities in preterm birth rates, Burris pointed out.
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Across 184 countries, preterm birth rates range from 5 percent to 18 percent.
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We asked ourselves, 'Did we do everything we could to prevent preterm labor?
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With my second child, at 28 weeks, I went into preterm labor again.
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Among those 20103 women, 25 had full-term and 13 had preterm deliveries.
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The risks included preterm delivery and preeclampsia, but Coon decided to go ahead.
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Meanwhile, overall preterm births have persistently increased over the past couple of years.
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Now we have to hope and pray she doesn't go into preterm labor.
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Obese women also have higher rates of gestational diabetes, miscarriages and preterm births.
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Twenty years ago, preterm or low-weight babies had a harder time surviving.
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For babies, it can lead to growth restriction, preterm delivery, or even stillbirth.
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Breastfeeding may also not be advised for those at risk of preterm labor.
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The study wasn't designed to prove whether preterm birth influences susceptibility to diabetes.
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Researchers used to think that preterm labor could be triggered by contractions caused by prostaglandins in semen or endogenous prostaglandins released from stimulation of the cervix, Proudfit says; but there aren't enough data to prove that sexual intercourse induces preterm labor.
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Half of preterm patients go into labor within 48 hours of their water breaking.
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The rate of preterm birth is also higher among Hispanic women than white women.
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Researchers hypothesize that in preterm birth the cervix shortens much earlier than it should.
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The new research efforts could also ease the economic burden associated with preterm birth.
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They will be impacted by the fact of having been a preterm birth baby.
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The women who delivered preterm did so between 23 and 33 weeks, Moufarrej said.
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"Currently, diagnostic tools to predict the risk of preterm birth are limited," she said.
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The more breast milk a preterm infant receives for feedings, the stronger the protection.
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Preterm birth is one of the biggest risk factors for infant mortality, she said.
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Rossen's reports also included data for age-specific birth rates and preterm birth rates.
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Overall, almost 9 percent of the women delivered preterm babies in their first pregnancy.
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Low birth weight and preterm births are associated with physical and mental developmental problems.
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We had twin boys, Hashim and Ibrahim, lost to preterm labor at 183 weeks.
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Although preterm birth rates were higher in the bariatric group in first pregnancies, in second pregnancies there was a 63% reduction in the odds of preterm birth in the bariatric surgery group compared with a 20% reduction for women who didn't have surgery.
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When mothers started doing this, the area's low survival rates for larger preterm babies tripled.
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Sensum Technologies uses advanced statistical and machine learning algorithms to predict and prevent preterm birth.
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"Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal death, it's a huge problem," Quake said.
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Preterm is one of the many clinics already on the front line of that fight.
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As the number of preterm births rises, families are shouldering unexpected out-of-pocket expenses.
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However, other fertility trends are less positive, like a marked rise in preterm birth rates.
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Other experimental drugs that LUCA is developing would target preterm birth, bacterial vaginosis, and infertility.
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We need to continue to develop ways to improve outcomes for infants born extremely preterm.
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But I did karaoke, and everyone thought I was going to go into preterm labor.
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Hotter and longer heat waves might increase the rate of preterm birth, new research suggests.
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That rise was due to an increase in late preterm births, in which a child is born at 250 to 2200 weeks gestation; early preterm births, in which a child is born at less than 34 weeks, have declined slightly, according to the report.
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She walked into Preterm with $200 in hand for a procedure that cost nearly twice that.
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A normal pregnancy lasts roughly 4 to 40 weeks, with births before 37 weeks considered preterm.
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A typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, and babies born before 37 weeks are considered preterm.
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And Rogers worries about how hype surrounding the Biobag could impact parents coping with preterm infants.
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On average, preterm youth underperformed on the IQ tests by the equivalent of about 13 points.
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And about 30,000 per year are critically preterm, meaning they are born younger than 26 weeks.
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Initial data indicates that, a year into the program, preterm births fell by about 13 percent.
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In fact, untreated maternal depression has been associated with preterm births, stillbirths, and low birth weight.
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Michelle and Mark had thought they were having a normal pregnancy until Michelle's preterm labor began.
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It can also be dangerous for pregnant people, and can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, and preterm birth.
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And studies show that reading aloud to children born preterm is associated with higher cognitive development.
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She's also had two abortions at Preterm, one of the largest abortion providers in the state.
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Globally, preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5 years old.
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In one study, daily massage therapy was associated with a 47% weight gain in preterm infants.
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Since 1936, only 23 babies worldwide have survived preterm birth after weighing less than 10.58 ounces.
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"The factors that contribute to the development of these illnesses are not completely understood, but probably include infections, oxidative stress, nutritional deficiencies arising from preterm birth, and therapies that are needed to assure the survival after very preterm birth, such as mechanical ventilation," Robert said by email.
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After starting with preterm birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pollution data from the Environmental Protection Agency, Trasande and his colleagues drew from various previous studies to estimate the number of preterm births caused by air pollution in each US county.
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"I think it's really a very exciting study that suggests an approach that may have a lot of potential for predicting preterm delivery," said Dr. Louis Muglia, director of the Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center at the University of Cincinnati.
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Menefee was able to get assistance from an abortion fund associated with Preterm, a local Ohio clinic.
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"This is important to all, but maybe more so for children and adults born preterm," Luu added.
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As recently as 2010, the United States had a higher preterm birth rate than Ethiopia and Rwanda.
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The March of Dimes and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have also made preterm birth a priority.
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A 2016 paper, for example, found that CenteringPregnancy reduced the risk of preterm birth by 36 percent.
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Exposure in the womb to air pollution in general can lead to preterm birth and birth defects.
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With extremely preterm infants born before 22 weeks, first-time mothers had twice the later heart risk.
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Neonatal complications, including preterm birth, low birth weight, and factors related to hypoxia, also come into play.
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"Preterm delivery may disrupt this," and could increase the risk of long-term emotional and behavioral problems.
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The babies are at increased risk for preterm birth, low birth weight and even autism spectrum disorder.
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The findings showed higher levels of preterm birth among women who reported the greatest experiences of racism.
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Similarly, preterm births occurred in 8.2% of pregnancies involving asthma attacks compared with 6.7% of other pregnancies.
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Since 1936, there have been 23 babies who survived preterm birth worldwide after weighing under 10.58 ounces.
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In the nine months beginning with November 22014, about 22017% to 27% more preterm births to Latina women occurred above the levels of preterm births that would have been expected had the election not occurred, suggests the study, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open on Friday.
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Preterm birth has also been linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure and diabetes decades later.
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Higher exposure to air pollutants has been associated with lower birth weights, preterm deliveries and congenital heart defects.
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Around 15 million preterm births occur annually around the world, and it's a common cause of infant mortality.
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Among them, insomnia increased the risk of preterm birth by 30%; sleep apnea increased the risk by 40%.
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Having multiple pregnancies also puts you at a higher risk for several complications, including preterm birth and preeclampsia.
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The 2005 study found that the risk of preterm delivery or stillbirth tripled in the women's subsequent pregnancies.
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Previous studies have shown that the less fish consumed during pregnancy, the higher the rate of preterm delivery.
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Combustion-related particle matter is associated with lower birth weight, preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction, they noted.
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At six months, right when a baby can be viable if born, I ended up in preterm labor.
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"If you start off as preterm or low birthweight, you have so many strikes against you," says Braveman.
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The preterm babies who had more exposure to painful medical procedures also had a reduced response to touch.
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Another possible factor could be the reason as to why a preterm delivery occurred in the first place.
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With each increase in temperature or duration of the heat wave, the percentage of preterm births increased steadily.
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At a mean temperature of 88 degrees for two days, for example, 6.63 percent of births were preterm.
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Once a woman is confirmed pregnant, data from her health records (say, a history of hypertension or a prior preterm birth) and demographics (older moms are more likely to deliver preterm) are used to generate a preliminary risk score; if she rates highly, she's assigned a nurse to learn more.
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Risk factors for preterm delivery include a mother's history of preterm birth; problems of the uterus, cervix or placenta; smoking or use of illicit drugs during pregnancy; chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes; some infections; stressful life events; and physical injury or trauma, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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There has been an increase in the prevalence of preterm births in the United States, with an additional 8,19633 babies being born prematurely last year due to a rise in the preterm birth rate between 2015 and 2016, according to a report released Wednesday from the nonprofit organization March of Dimes.
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"We're thinking, Here's a middle-class, well-educated black woman having a preterm birth when no one else in our group had a preterm birth," says Dr. Julie Palmer, associate director of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University and a principal investigator of the continuing study of 59,000 subjects.
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The study wasn't designed to prove whether or how ART might directly contribute to preterm births or underweight babies.
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Butler points out that a high-protein diet is linked to pregnancy complications, preterm delivery, and fetal health risks.
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Pregnancy losses (48%) and preterm delivery (66%) occurred most frequently with neural tube defects and other early brain malformations.
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"Extremely preterm babies' brains are also very fragile - particularly some of the blood vessels inside the brain," Gale added.
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Having a mother or father who is depressed increases the risk of preterm birth, a new study has found.
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It can reliably predict when women are going into labor, which can help reduce preterm births and C-sections.
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Preterm birth is the leading cause of death for infants, killing 1 million babies around the world in 2015.
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Despite the extensive advances made in the care of premature babies, scientists still don't know what prompts preterm birth.
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The preterm birth rate in the United States was 9.62 percent in 2015, up from 9.57 percent in 2014.
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Finding the causes of preterm birth will ultimately lead to the development of therapies and drugs to prevent it.
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They found that, from November 2016 to July 2017, an additional 2,337 preterm births to Latina women were recorded.
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"Preterm delivery rates have declined between 2005 and 2014 in the US and in several European countries," Ananth said.
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) didn't appear to influence whether women had a preterm delivery, the study also found.
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A 2006 study published in Epidemiology looked at how preterm delivery occurred among women in active-duty military installations.
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But there were significant increases in preterm birth in asthmatic women exposed to air pollution, including traffic-related pollutants.
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Preterm birth and infant mortality rates rise in places where mothers are exposed to high levels of air pollution.
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There's also evidence that they may help prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (a serious gastrointestinal condition) and death in preterm infants.
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Early preterm birth has been shown to have long-lasting impacts on children's brains, stress, and behavior for years.
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Taking omega-3 supplements during pregnancy may lower the risk for preterm birth, a review of studies has found.
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"The risks include stillbirth, preterm birth, lower birth weight, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, inhibited brain development and death," he said.
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Violence during pregnancy can also trigger a maternal stress response, increasing risk of preterm birth and low birth weight.
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The preterm birthrate — babies born before 37 weeks of gestation — increased to 9.84 percent from 9.63 percent in 2015.
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Use during pregnancy may be associated with fetal growth restriction, stillbirth, preterm birth, and neonatal intensive care unit admission.
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When she got pregnant again a few years later and had another preterm birth, she didn't have much hope.
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Further complicating the matter: Adolescents appear to be at increased risk for preterm birth, preeclampsia and low birth weight.
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A total of 96 preterm babies in incubators were shown to visitors at the 228–2200 New York World's Fair.
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Among women who moved, there was a 9.1% risk of preterm birth, compared with 6.4% for those who didn't move.
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A growing body of research shows that both full-term and preterm infants may benefit from this additional blood volume.
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Quitting opioids cold turkey is dangerous for the infant and could increase the risk of preterm labor or fetal death.
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And as the number of preterm births rises, so does the number of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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One reason researchers haven't been able to discover the cause of preterm labor is that there isn't a single cause.
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Reducing the number of preterm births to Sweden's levels could save the lives of more than 3,200 U.S.-born infants.
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The drug, a synthetic estrogen known as diethylstilbestrol (DES), was designed to prevent pregnancy complications like miscarriage and preterm delivery.
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However, black babies were more likely to be preterm — the top cause of death for black infants was low birthweight.
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When Grace Klein worked as a Patient Advocate at Cleveland's Preterm clinic, a woman came in asking for an abortion.
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Being underweight puts you at a higher risk for preterm delivery and giving birth to a baby at low weight.
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Skin-to-skin contact was shown to decrease infant cortisol levels and also decrease autonomic pain indicators with preterm infants.
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Those clinics include Planned Parenthood Southwest in Cincinnati, the Women's Med Center in Dayton and the Preterm facility in Cleveland.
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Mothers who received the visits smoked less, and they had fewer preterm births and fewer incidents of abuse or neglect.
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Here, we changed our practices quickly, so our regional care systems for critically ill and preterm infants were not overwhelmed.
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Angel Rucker, director of clinical services for Preterm, said 20 weeks was roughly the time when ultrasounds determined fetal anomalies.
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And a new study published Monday in Nature identifies another potential hazard of climate change: an increase in preterm births.
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"Our test was able to predict 233% of women who went on to have any preterm birth, at 2100 to 22016 weeks gestation," said Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, an associate professor and director of Precision Health and Discovery at the University of California, San Francisco's Preterm Birth Initiative, who was first author of the study.
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"A low-cost, highly accurate test has the most potential for helping blunt the current epidemic of preterm birth in the United States and around the world, an epidemic that disproportionally affects women of color, especially black women, who are as much as twice as likely to deliver preterm than their white peers," she said.
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Last year, a study published in the medical journal JAMA found that routine screening methods to predict spontaneous preterm birth before 37 weeks -- by measuring cervical length, assessing a certain protein called fetal fibronectin or both -- had low predictive accuracy for spontaneous preterm birth in a sample of 9,410 pregnant women in the United States.
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In 2015, the rate of preterm birth among African-American women (13%) was higher than the rate among white women (9%).
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Hidalgo was prescribed methadone during her pregnancy because quitting opioids abruptly can increase the risk of preterm labor and fetal death.
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The societal cost for preterm babies in the United States is at least $26.2 billion a year, according to one study.
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The research could potentially offer a new kind of screening to determine whether someone is at risk for a preterm birth.
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That initiative cut preterm birth rates by 25 percent as more women gained access and participated in more intensive prenatal care.
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Their results showed that, overall, women who opted for doula services were significantly less likely to have preterm or cesarean births.
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Depression during pregnancy is tied to an increased risk of poor nutrition, alcohol and drug use, obstetric complications and preterm births.
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Early detection, parenting support and timely referral to specialized care helps give preterm children the best start at school, she said.
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Using those 7 genes, they accurately classified six of eight preterm cases and misclassified only one of 26 full-term cases.
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Here too, there are childhood origins — African-American infants are more likely to be born preterm and with lower birth weights.
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They offer some specific guidance, such as for extreme preterm infants with low birth weights and a low chance of survival.
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I [inadvertently] called two crisis pregnancy centers before I found Preterm, and I could tell right away that they sounded off.
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A preterm birth appears to be an early warning signal of a woman's risk for heart disease, a new study shows.
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Closing coal- and oil-fired power plants is associated with a reduction in preterm births in the surrounding region, researchers report.
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The highest rate of preterm birth was among non-Hispanic blacks, at 13.75 percent, and lowest among Asians, at 8.63 percent.
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Air pollution also disproportionally threatens pregnant mothers by negatively impacting fetal health and contributing to preterm birth and low birth weight.
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To fund them, they were put on public display—with living preterm babies inside them—at exhibitions across Europe and North America.
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IMAGE: Women and Infants Research FoundationIt's not the first time that researchers have successfully used such a system to incubate preterm lambs.
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Women living within 5 km (about 3 miles) of a plant showed the biggest drop in preterm births after a plant closure.
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That study came out last week and found that the drug — which has become the standard treatment — doesn't decrease recurrent preterm births.
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Small-for-gestational-age and preterm birth before 32 weeks were most common among women who were underweight before pregnancy, they found.
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"I went into preterm labor and was told that I had to be awake for the whole procedure," Jovovich wrote on Instagram.
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Preterm births linked to air pollution were higher in urban counties, primarily in Southern California and the Eastern U.S., the analysis found.
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The only clinical test for preterm birth is a measure of cervical length, taken during an ultrasound (shorter usually indicates greater risk).
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The study is part of a $100 million investigation of prematurity in California and East Africa called the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative.
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Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5, responsible for about 1 million deaths worldwide in 2015.
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Those 25 biomarkers were selected from a panel of 63 that had been shown to be related to preterm birth or preeclampsia.
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Roughly 2 percent delivered very preterm, or before 23 weeks, while about 7 percent delivered during weeks 32 to 36 of pregnancy.
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Compared with typically developing kids, those with ASD were more likely to be boys, born preterm and at a low birth weight.
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Tobacco intervention and counseling Twenty percent of pregnant moms on Medicaid smoke, which can lead to preterm births and sudden infant deaths.
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When Ahmad and his colleagues entered Stensrud's labor and delivery room, they were not expecting to resuscitate the preterm baby, he said.
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By one important measure — preterm births — there's disturbing new evidence that the policies and rhetoric may be indirectly be dangerous for health.
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Horrible preterm births in the hospital, fluid everywhere, the fetus — perfect and translucent and too tiny to live — slipping between her legs.
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She said that preterm or premature births remain a huge issue in the US and pose the greatest risk of infant death.
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And another published earlier this year in JAMA found that higher-risk, preterm births are more likely in counties without obstetric units.
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Teen mothers give birth at higher rates to preterm, low birth-weight babies, who are more likely to have worse health outcomes.
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Smoking during pregnancy has long been linked to a wide variety of pregnancy complications including preterm births, low birth weight and stillbirth.
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For those living within three miles of the plants, the preterm birthrate was 5.1 percent after closing compared with 7.0 percent before.
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"Parents should know that most children who were born preterm will have good health in childhood and adulthood," Crump said by email.
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"Knowledge that they were born preterm and any complications they had should be part of their medical history for life," Doyle said.
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"Abortion reversal is unproven, unscientific, and potentially unsafe," Tam Nickerson-Scott, clinic operations director at Preterm, Ohio's largest abortion provider, told Vox.
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And doulas, which have been linked to reduced cesarean and preterm births, aren't usually provided by a hospital or covered by Medicaid.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of 10 babies in the United States are born preterm each year.
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"In terms of preterm birth and infant mortality, the United States has the highest rates of any of the developed nations," Jarris said.
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"The 'elongated cranium' of Ata is therefore phenotypically normal for a preterm foetus that has been delivered," write the researchers in the study.
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That means far more infants are being admitted to expensive neonatal intensive care units, increasing the financial burden on families with preterm infants.
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"Very preterm babies need to be carefully stabilized and supported after birth as their organ systems are more immature," Gale said by email.
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These effects include higher rates of preterm birth, low birthweight, preeclampsia, and miscarriage as well as effects on child emotional and cognitive development.
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Even major medical conditions—hypertension, obesity, a prior preterm birth—still can't predict more often than not if a baby will arrive prematurely.
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We rushed off to the hospital, where I was given an IV of magnesium sulfate, which is sometimes used to stop preterm labor.
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Air pollution can mess with your body and mind — it can lead to asthma, preterm birth, heart attacks, and even a shorter lifespan.
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Mounting evidence shows the direct relationship between the use of breast milk and the strength of protection against morbidity in extremely preterm infants.
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For those who are pregnant especially, the consequences can be pretty scary: miscarriage, stillbirth, and preterm birth can all be caused by listeriosis.
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Trasande's study is the first of its kind to measure the economic implications of air pollution on preterm birth in the United States.
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Ahmad pointed out that Stensrud's daughter was one case, and more research needs to be done on preterm births lower than 22 weeks.
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Dr. Darcy-Mahoney's research has led to the creation of programs that improve health and developmental outcomes for at-risk and preterm infants.
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It's a limitation of all outcome studies of preterm infants because that's an individual conversation that happens between the family and the provider.
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Scientists counted the number of preterm babies born in regions surrounding eight power plants before and after their closings from 2001 to 2011.
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This is the second year in a row of increases in preterm birth after a decline of 8 percent from 2007 to 2014.
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Teen mothers have higher rates of giving birth to preterm, low birth-weight babies, who are more likely to have worse health outcomes.
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"This study is extremely significant as it shows that preterm infants born at non-tertiary-level facilities are indeed at higher risk of mortality and preterm infants transferred after birth are at higher risk for brain injury," said Dr. Colm Travers, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who co-authored an editorial accompanying the study.
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"On the flip side, in terms of predicting (medically) indicated preterm birth, what you're really predicting is the likelihood that mom or baby will develop a complication like preeclampsia or growth restriction that may require ending the pregnancy early in order to keep mom and baby safe," said Rand, who is also principal investigator of the California Preterm Birth Initiative.
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She added that because the test identified women who are at high risk for preterm birth with preeclampsia -- identifying about 2945% of women who went on to have preterm birth with preeclampsia before 237 weeks -- it offers an opportunity for intervention, such as for starting those moms-to-be on a low-dose aspirin to help lower their risk of preeclampsia.
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In the new study, "we were not surprised to find that black and Hispanic infants are at higher risk of very preterm morbidities given what we know about their increased risk to be born extremely premature, as well as our previous work that hospital quality of care may play a role in racial and ethnic disparities in very preterm morbidity," Janevic said.
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His modified instruments have led to fewer preterm deliveries and C-sections for mothers, and his surgeries have helped improve survival rates for infants.
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The study team defined preterm birth as less than 37 weeks gestation and low birthweight as less than 2500 grams, or about 303 pounds.
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The overall preterm birth rate in the United States rose from 9.93% to 10.02%, according to the report, and disparities in that rate remain.
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The researchers also looked at preterm birth rates around eight power plants that had not closed and found no differences during the same years.
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They also had too few extremely preterm babies to draw firm conclusions about the heart risks associated with delivery earlier than 34 weeks gestation.
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There was a slight increase in the rate of preterm births, from 9.57% in 2014 to 9.62% in 2015, the first increase since 2007.
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"Anyone born preterm does not need to be worried more because of this publication," Doyle, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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A 2007 Yale study found that the program reduced preterm births 29 percent (and an even steeper, 36 percent decline for African-American women).
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Metz wants to look at the association between marijuana use and fetal growth restriction, hypertension in pregnant mothers, stillbirth, spontaneous preterm birth, and more.
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With the wide disparity in preterm births and neonatal and maternal mortality across the nation, the need for such coverage is expanding, not contracting.
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Picture this: an intervention in your county has evidence to support that it can reduce preterm births and incidences of child abuse and neglect.
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Such synchronicity is also a feature of real brains, including those of preterm human infants of about the same age as Dr Muotri's organoids.
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Chlamydia infection increases susceptibility to other STIs and infection during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and preterm birth, according to the statement.
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Babies born before the 35th week were considered preterm; such babies account for most of the newborn deaths and childhood disability seen in preemies.
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"This report reinforces the urgency of supporting women before, during and after pregnancy and preventing preterm births in women of color and all women."
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Compared with women in the general population, those who had bariatric surgery had higher rates of high blood pressure, diabetes and preterm deliveries overall.
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Women who have had previous surgeries on their cervix or have a history of preterm birth are at higher risk for a weakened cervix.
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Experts wondered if the high rates of infant death in black women, understood to be related to small, preterm babies, had a genetic component.
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The prevalence of preterm birth decreased significantly near power plants after they closed, with larger decreases in women who lived closer to the plants.
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If pregnant women aren't treated for syphilis, the baby can be born with it, resulting in stillbirths, preterm birth and physical and mental disabilities.
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For babies, it can lead to growth restriction, preterm delivery, or even stillbirth, says Sandy Dorcelus, MD, an OB-GYN at NYU Winthrop Hospital.
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The beeps and buzzes of the unit's monitors, the tiny preterm infants in the next cribs on ventilators — they were too much for Ashley.
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On a gray Friday outside Preterm, the largest abortion provider in Ohio, which is in suburban Cleveland, a protester yelled at people going inside.
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While many hospitals have adopted delayed cord clamping for preterm infants, it isn't known how many are doing it routinely for full-term babies.
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Primarily, it has been seen as a very cost-effective method of providing the public health benefit of fewer unintended pregnancies and fewer preterm babies.
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"Preterm infants definitely do better with delayed cord clamping," Denny said, noting that they have fewer serious problems such as brain bleeds and intestinal issues.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, preterm birth affected roughly one in 10 infants born in the United States in 2014.
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The analysis also showed no elevated risk for spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, low birthweight, stillbirth or having a child who is small for gestational age.
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"Today, I had to deliver my precious baby boy early this morning due to preterm labor," Goodwin-Snow, 24, said on Instagram following Sunday's game.
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At the University of Pennsylvania, doctors who specialize in studying tendons and ligaments are now researching the cervix to determine how it affects preterm labor.
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The prematurity centers are also examining particular genes that affect preterm labor, inflammation and infection in the uterus, social determinants and maternal and fetal stress.
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"We observe this increase over and above expected levels of preterm birth in the general population, which has been increasing overall since 2014," Gemmill said.
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The CDC also states that, in the United States, the preterm birthrate for black women is 1.5 times greater than the rate for white women.
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One limitation of the study is that it can't prove pollution causes preterm births, or why these two things may be connected, the authors note.
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One study, published in Nature Medicine and led by scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University, focused on the relationship between the vaginal microbiome and preterm birth.
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The researchers also conducted a more in-depth study of 45 people of African ancestry who experienced preterm birth, alongside 90 who didn't for comparison.
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The preterm birth rate -- when a baby is born more than three weeks before a full nine month pregnancy -- also rose for American women overall.
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The association is comprised of 85033 pediatric institutions which are daily performing heart surgeries, administering chemotherapy and giving babies born preterm a chance at life.
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In the United States, preterm birth affected about one of every 93 infants born in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The test measured up to two months in advance of when any woman delivered preterm, using maternal blood samples drawn late in the second trimester.
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Preterm births account for approximately 70% of all newborn deaths and 36% of all infant deaths, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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Astarte Medical has already built the largest and most comprehensive dataset of preterm infant microbiome profiles and corresponding clinical data about both mom and baby.
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Preterm and otherwise critically ill infants present with fragile lives that require extensive NICU care, and these infants would benefit significantly from SSC facilitated breastfeeding.
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The study, in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that all women with asthma were more likely than those without to deliver preterm.
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Last year, preterm birth affected about one of every 10 infants born in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Pediatric and obstetric professional society guidelines are routinely updated to answer that challenging question of when resuscitating a preterm baby should be recommended or not.
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Puerto Rico's maternal health care system was already weak, with the highest cesarean rate and the fifth-highest preterm birth rate in the United States.
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Yet "our study estimates risk of very preterm morbidities from the vantage point of all pregnancies, and therefore better captures population-level disparities," Janevic said.
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"Babies born to mothers who were diagnosed with anemia earlier on tended to be smaller and were more likely to be born preterm," Gardner said.
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Each year in the United States, approximately 30,000 births are critically preterm, meaning babies are born before 26 weeks of a full 37-week gestation period.
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Notably, homeless women are almost three times more likely to have a preterm delivery than housed women, often leading to costly health complications for their infants.
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"We don't totally understand why preterm labor happens, but women who are at higher risk shouldn't do anything that could potentially contribute to it," Proudfit says.
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The March of Dimes estimates that the average societal cost of each preterm birth, which includes medical care, early intervention services and lost productivity, is $2569,22015.
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Each additional week of pregnancy that babies missed with preterm deliveries was associated with a 1.26-point reduction in IQ scores, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
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In 24, an estimated 2100% of infant deaths were due to preterm-related causes, according to a paper published in National Vital Statistics Reports in 2000.
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Based on the raw number of preterm births, the United States ranks sixth among countries with the most premature births, according to the World Health Organization.
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Each year in the United States, approximately 223,23 births are critically preterm, meaning babies are born before 228 weeks of gestation (normal gestation is 37 weeks).
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The new study builds on that previous research to provide a national snapshot of potential links between America's social and political climate with preterm birth outcomes.
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Preterm births, defined as a baby born before 37 complete weeks of pregnancy, are linked with a host of complications and the highest infant mortality rates.
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These three studies, which examine preterm birth, inflammatory bowel disease, and pre-diabetes, demonstrate that microbiomes are unique to individuals and intimately tied to our health.
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A pregnant woman's risk of delivering early can depend on factors such as a previous preterm birth, certain pregnancy or medical complications, preeclampsia, stress or diabetes.
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Children here start off at a disadvantage — one in seven babies is born prematurely, and lead can increase rates of preterm birth and low birth weight.
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Preterm babies in particular are at risk, as they're the ones most likely to be exposed to the greatest number of painful stimuli in the NICU.
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According to new findings published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, women with eating disorders are much more likely to experience either preterm birth or serious prenatal complications.
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All maternal eating disorders, including EDNOS, were associated with an increased risk of preterm birth; those with anorexia faced double the risk of the general population.
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Past research has shown that preterm children have an increased risk of attention problems, hyperactivity, anxiety or depression and social problems, the authors write in Pediatrics.
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Additionally, Asian preterm infants were at an increased risk of retinopathy of prematurity, according to the study published on Monday in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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If a mother is at risk of preterm labor, she should not breastfeed while pregnant until the baby reaches at least 37 weeks gestation, Hafken says.
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Studies are needed to develop new drugs to treat conditions that only occur in pregnancy, such as severe nausea and vomiting, pre-eclampsia and preterm birth.
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The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Cleveland abortion provider Preterm, seeks to delay enforcement of the law, which is scheduled to go into effect March 23.
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A new review of the research says that light drinking during pregnancy may increase the risk of preterm birth and the risk of having a small baby.
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Studies have also shown that use of donor eggs or embryos is associated with an increased risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension, preterm delivery, and low birth weight.
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The data also showed that the preterm birth rate in the United States rose for the fourth year in a row to 22018%, from 10.023% in 210.02.
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Danielle Boyce, a mother of four and research consultant based in Philadelphia, had "significant preterm labor issues" with her first two children, including her eldest son, Charlie.
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He was born preterm at 34 weeks, developed a seizure disorder as a baby and now has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, severe intellectual disability and autism, Boyce said.
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That being said, your doctor still might tell you to avoid orgasms if you're at high risk for preterm labor because of the theoretical risk, Proudfit says.
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"Infants who were suffocated by overlay were youngest and had a higher proportion born preterm than infants who were suffocated by soft bedding or wedging," Lambert added.
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In addition, the rates of preterm birth, cesarean delivery, low birth weight, poor fetal growth, or a congenital malformation at delivery were greater among women with asthma.
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The dolphins stranded in the spill zone were much smaller than those outside of it, suggesting they were preterm fetuses or "very young newborns," the study says.
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For instance, preeclampsia (a condition in which your blood pressure suddenly spikes), preterm births, and gestational diabetes are all more common among those carrying multiple pregnancies. 3.
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Overall, more than 7 percent of preterm children had emotional or behavioral problems at both time points, compared with less than 4 percent of full-term children.
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Gestational diabetes — abnormally high blood sugar that develops during pregnancy — can lead to excessive birth weight, preterm birth or respiratory distress in the baby, among other problems.
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Using a similar analysis of RNA in blood from eight women who delivered prematurely, the researchers were able to correctly classify six of their pregnancies as preterm.
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The study controlled for the mothers' age, smoking, blood pressure and other factors as well as for preterm birth, gestational age and other variables in the babies.
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"They've also been shown to have a higher rate of preterm birth, which could be linked to the limited access in care or other factors," she said.
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Women who had asthma attacks were also 73% more likely to have low-birthweight or preterm babies and 27% more likely to have infants with birth defects.
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There's also an unsurprising class divide: Wealthier people, with better in-home air conditioning, were less likely to go into preterm labor on a particularly hot day.
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"What we know from previous studies is that preterm-born children are usually timid, socially withdrawn and low in risk-taking and fun seeking," said Marina Mendonca, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Warwick in the UK. "These characteristics might make it harder for individuals born preterm to form social relationships in adulthood, such as finding a partner," Mendonca said by email.
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Even my own doctor, who outlined the standard risks — blood clots, muscle loss, depression –– admitted that the "rest" aspect of bed rest would not necessarily prevent preterm labor.
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According to Paige, the program is responsible for a reduction in low birth weights and preterm births, as well as a range of other positive short-term effects.
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The earlier a baby is born, the higher the risk of death or disability, so reducing preterm birth is a national public health priority, according to the CDC.
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"Black infants are more than 50% more likely to be preterm and more than 200% as likely to be born low birth weight than white infants," Burris said.
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But in a large analysis of twin pregnancies, they found that both very high and very low weight gain was associated with more preterm births and infant death.
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Jovovich was halfway through her pregnancy two years ago and shooting a movie in Eastern Europe when she needed an abortion as she had gone into preterm labor.
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Some experts prefer to focus on preterm birth rate per 100 live births (or 2803,000), eliminating the influence of the number of live births overall in any country.
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A study discovered some serious health risks associated with standing for more than 8 hours, ranging from lower back pain, foot aches, preterm birth and even spontaneous abortions.
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So-called maternal effects - such as a preterm delivery or certain medical issues during pregnancy - didn't appear to explain variation in autism risk, researchers report in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Each decade, preemies' odds of survival to adulthood improved, from about 222% of preterm infants born in the 22019s to about 96% of those born in the 1990s.
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Just 2% of extremely preterm babies - those born at 22 to 27 weeks gestation - were alive without any serious chronic health problems by the end of the study.
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With night shifts, pregnant women were 21% more likely to have preterm deliveries and 23% more likely to have miscarriages than women who worked days, the analysis found.
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Working more than 40 hours a week was also associated with a 38% higher risk of miscarriages and a 21% higher risk of preterm deliveries than working less.
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It's also possible that the women who chose to have doulas were less likely to have preterm or cesarean births anyway, for reasons totally unrelated to their doulas.
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"Doctors said the preterm birth was necessary after they found that the baby was not gaining weight and her mother's life was at immediate risk," the hospital said.
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"Other epidemiological data on rates of stillbirth versus complications of later preterm or early term birth also suggest 39 weeks is the optimal time of delivery," Lockwood said.
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"These findings may help to determine before school entry which preterm children are likely to have increased risks of emotional and behavioral problems when attending school," Hornman said.
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Reviews show that there is insufficient evidence to recommend their use to treat or prevent eczema, preterm labor, gestational diabetes, bacterial vaginosis, allergic diseases or urinary tract infections.
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Extensive epidemiologic studies associate pesticide exposure with adverse birth and developmental outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight, congenital abnormalities, pediatric cancers, neurobehavioral and cognitive deficits, and asthma.
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A similar phenomenon may be at the root of the finding that pregnant women lacking dental care or teeth cleaning are more likely to experience a preterm delivery.
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Over all, women with sleep disorders had a 14.6 percent prevalence of preterm birth (before 37 weeks of gestation), compared with 10.9 percent in those without a diagnosis.
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In previous studies, preterm birth has been associated with insulin resistance, but this is the first large study to track the risks of diabetes from childhood into adulthood.
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But preemies who had more gentle contact with parents and caregivers had a stronger response to touch than the preterm infants who didn't get this type of support.
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An estimated 15 million infants a year are born prematurely and preterm birth complications were responsible for nearly 1 million deaths in 2015, according to the World Health Organization.
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The program is part of a growing national effort to use home visits to help increase cognitive development in children, reduce emergency room visits and help decrease preterm births.
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Preterm birth affects about 1 in 10 babies born in the U.S., — and the couple noted that reading comments from other parents of premature babies has been particularly rewarding.
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Extreme prematurity is the leading cause of infant mortality and disease, causing a third of all infant deaths and half of all cerebral palsy diagnoses attributed to preterm births.
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Bicornuate uteruses can make pregnancy risky, Simpson says, and sometimes lead to preterm labor, malpresentation (meaning the baby does not get into the head down position), and cesarean delivery.
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I went into preterm labor at 29 weeks, which basically meant my triplets were at risk of a premature birth, and I was put on bedrest at the hospital.
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"The ability to noninvasively monitor fetal development and predict the risk of preterm birth through circulating markers could have a major impact on pregnancy monitoring and management," she said.
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The leading causes of black infant mortality for newborns are low birth weight, preterm deliveries, birth defects and pregnancy complications, researchers note in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Last year, lower respiratory infections, neonatal preterm birth complications and neonatal encephalopathy due to birth asphyxia and trauma were the most common causes of fatality for children under 5.
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The other is caring for four-year-old twins who were born preterm and who often needed unpredictable medical care and hospital stays during their first years of life.
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Jose Cordero, the former dean of the University of Puerto Rico's Graduate School of Public Health, worries that stress may contribute to even more preterm births following the hurricane.
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That work could help doctors diagnose dangerous complications in pregnancy — including pre-eclampsia (a form of high blood pressure), preterm birth and fetal growth restriction — early enough to intervene.
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When protesters dramatically vandalized Preterm, an independent provider in Cleveland, the community rallied around the clinic and its staff, showing an outpouring of love and support amid the threats.
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Mary Louisa, who was 26 weeks pregnant, recently started experiencing contractions that are a hallmark of preterm labor but had not had a full prenatal checkup in a month.
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There have been some reports of mothers diagnosed with Covid-19 delivering their babies early, but we don't know if those preterm births are actually linked to the infection.
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Many are not aware that certain addiction-treatment medications are opioids as well, risking withdrawal, preterm or low-birth-weight birth, with unknown long-term medical and societal consequences.
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Because ART infants are more likely to arrive early and preemies may be more likely to enroll in EI programs, researchers adjusted the results to account for preterm deliveries.
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The rate of preterm birth in the U.S. has increased for the second year in a row, according to a new report released Wednesday by the March of Dimes.
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In preterm babies, delayed cord clamping has additional benefits, including a lower incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage, or bleeding in the brain, and a serious bowel infection called necrotizing enterocolitis.
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That network of researchers had previously determined that complications during the birth process, including preterm labor and premature rupture of the amniotic sac, accounted for 30 percent of stillbirths.
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France also shared in a recent op-ed with The Columbus Dispatch that Preterm gets daily calls from people asking if they can get an abortion in the state.
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For young adults in the study, women who were preemies had a 75% increased risk of type 2 diabetes and men who were preterm had a 28% increased risk.
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Hyperemesis gravidarum is one of the most common reasons for hospitalization in pregnancy, second only to preterm labor, and occurs in somewhere between 0.3 and 3 percent of pregnancies.
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Preterm birth affected about one in every 10 infants born in the United States in 2015, the most recent statistical year tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Discussions around extreme preterm births—generally defined as 28 weeks or earlier—are similar to the ones around end-of-life care: What kinds of extraordinary measures will we deploy?
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We have had to carefully evaluate current and prospective research programs to ensure we are targeting very specific programs to meet very specific health objectives around reducing preterm birth rates.
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Extremely preterm babies who arrived before 123 weeks' gestation were 67% less likely to have romantic partners and 69% less likely to become parents in adulthood than full-term infants.
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Very preterm babies who arrived at 28 to 31 weeks' gestation were 33% less likely to have romantic partners and 21% less likely to become parents than full-term infants.
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More plausibly, the researchers say Ata's cranial bones were "altered" by the mother's cervix during delivery in a process known as moulding—a phenomenon sometimes seen in severe preterm fetuses.
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"Our findings were not explained by maternal factors that might contribute to both preterm birth and future heart disease, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking," Crump said by email.
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All the women were at risk for premature labor because they had early contractions or a previous preterm delivery, and 13 did indeed go on to have a premature baby.
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"This study suggests that women with threatened preterm labor should be transferred to tertiary level facilities before delivery with the infant still in utero whenever possible," Travers said by email.
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About 39 percent of that difference is due to a higher percentage of preterm births — a medical statistic researchers struggle to fully explain when comparing it to other developed nations.
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"The goal, of course, is to find the biological basis that will allow us to identify ways to reduce the preterm birth rate to 5.5 percent by 413," Simpson said.
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Additionally, since the study ended in July 2017, more research is needed to determine whether a rise in preterm births among Latina women has persisted over the last two years.
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The other blood test in development, described in a small pilot study in the journal Science, aimed to predict not only preterm delivery but the gestational age of a pregnancy.
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The most dramatic increase happened among Latina women born in Mexico and Central America: Their rate of preterm births jumped from 7.3 percent preelection to 8.4 percent after the election.
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There are certain features and limitations of preterm infant EEGs, including the effects the thickness of a developing human skull has on readings, that differ from the lab-grown organoids.
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Every year around the world, an estimated 20153 million babies are born preterm -- before 37 completed weeks of gestation -- and the number is rising, according to the World Health Organization.
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"While current evidence on health consequences is inconsistent, some studies have found risks associated with marijuana use during pregnancy, such as low birth weight or preterm birth," the agency said.
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Based on the mother's home address, the researchers looked at preterm birthrates within three, six and 12 miles of each plant in the year before and the year after closing.
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Rates of preterm birth rose most significantly among black women -- from 13.93% in 2017 to 14.13% in 2018; and for Hispanic women, from 303% in 2017 to 9.73% in 2018.
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"Our phones have been ringing off the hook, primarily with the simple question: Is abortion still legal in Ohio?" said Nancy R. Starner, director of development and communications for Preterm.
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According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 23% to 13% cases of SIDS and 5% to 7% of preterm-related infant deaths can be attributed to prenatal smoking.
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The odds of low birth weight is 1.6 times larger for black babies than white babies, and preterm birth is 1.9 times larger even when factoring in social economic status.
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The natural sex ratio at birth is skewed in favour of boys, but they are more likely than girls to be born preterm and die in their first years of life.
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Not only are panic disorders that occur during pregnancy a strong indicator for postpartum depression, but they have been linked to adverse birth outcomes, including low-birth weight and preterm births.
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In preterm infants -- those born before 37 weeks -- delayed clamping has been associated with improved circulation in the infant's heart, better red blood cell volume and decreased need for blood transfusion.
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"Performing oral sex isn't an issue and receiving oral sex is fine as long as you aren't at high risk for preterm labor and your doctor advises against orgasms," Minkin says.
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With the model "immune clock" on hand, doctors may be able to predict whether a woman will deliver preterm by observing if that clock is ticking too slow or too fast.
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Deployment on its own didn't appear to make a big difference in the chances of a preterm delivery when women delivered more than six months after they returned, the study found.
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The rest is unexplained and requires more research, but suggests that preterm delivery should be added to the list of women's risk factors for future heart disease, the study team writes.
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For women, the consequences are especially grave: They are 1.7 to 2.5 times more likely to develop inflammation of the cervix, pelvic inflammatory disease -- which can cause infertility -- and preterm birth.
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But two of the clinics -- Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio in Cincinnati and Preterm clinic in Cleveland -- disagreed, asserting that they would comply with the order but continue to provide abortions.
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The new study found rates of preterm births overall have gone up since the election, but the trend is being driven by immigrant groups targeted by the Trump administration, especially Latinas.
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This can affect both mental and physical health and lead to issues like preterm births, low newborn birthweight and the development of heart disease, diabetes and depression later on in life.
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By looking at genetic samples voluntarily submitted by 23andMe users, scientists discovered a potential link between preterm labor and a gene that regulates how the body uses a mineral called selenium.
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Just be aware that if you become pregnant with an IUD, you are at an increased risk of preterm labor, miscarriage, and infection even if the IUD is removed, Gersh says.
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The researchers were also curious about whether it might be possible to use measures of cell-free RNA transcripts to figure out whether a woman is at risk of preterm delivery.
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The United States has the highest rates of premature birth in the industrial world and preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn death–it affects 15 million babies globally each year.
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In contrast, moderate- to late-preterm babies who arrived at 32 to 36 weeks' gestation were only 21% less likely to have romantic relationships or become parents compared with full-term infants.
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Premature babies have less muscle tone, and the larger diapers do not allow the smaller legs and hips of a preterm baby to rest and move in the correct positions, Walker said.
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When Boyce became pregnant for a third time at age 42, she was "very concerned" about having another preterm birth and made the shared decision with her physician to start using Makena.
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During the past 22.2 years, the number of twins born in the U.S. has doubled, Bodnar noted, and twins account for about 22.9% of births but more than 23.7% of preterm births.
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There's other studies that we do, there was a big study that just came out on preterm labor, and we will participate in that, and we'll give aggregate data to the study.
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Preterm delivery (at less than 37 weeks) is one of the key causes of infant death in the US, and black infants die at more than twice the rate of white infants.
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As a neonatologist in the NICU and in the follow-up clinic at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, I know the importance of developmental therapies in optimizing a preterm infant's maximum potential.
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Early preterm delivery occurred in 2.2% of the fish oil pregnancies and 2.0% of the vegetable oil pregnancies, an insignificant difference, the study team reports in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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But in analyzing the blood of some of the women who delivered prematurely, the team identified seven other genes, mostly from the women, with RNA signals that seemed to characterize preterm birth.
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A newborn is at decreased risk for preterm birth, low birthweight and hospitalization, and new mothers experience increased breastfeeding rates and overall improved maternal health when they have access to paid leave.
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"What preeclampsia and preterm delivery have in common is that both come with a higher degree of inflammation in the body than what you would expect in a normal pregnancy," Nordqvist said.
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"Individuals who were born preterm can help prevent diabetes by following a healthy lifestyle across the life course, including a healthy diet, regular physical activity, and maintaining a normal weight," Crump advised.
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In the United States, preterm birth is the major contributor to low birth weight, probably due to high rates of cesarean sections, the use of fertility treatments, high maternal obesity and maternal age.
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Rather, the skull could have been elongated by vaginal delivery of the preterm fetus, while heat and pressure underground after the body was buried could have further compressed the cranium, the scientists reported.
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Reversing a lower court ruling, the 5-2 decision came amid a nationwide opioid crisis, including abuse by pregnant women that can result in preterm labor, stillbirth and withdrawal symptoms for new babies.
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But for Blaire*, who chose to have an abortion at Preterm two years ago after finding out she was pregnant while recovering from bariatric surgery, politics should have little to do with it.
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Some were just hours old, resting in incubators in the preterm birth unit, when a short circuit occurred in an air conditioning unit, according to a preliminary report provided by the Civil Defense.
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"Getting to a healthy weight has so many benefits, for both mothers and babies, including decreasing risks of diabetes and hypertension for moms, as well as decreasing risks for preterm birth," said Dolan.
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Contraception is critical for many women to ensure healthy birth spacing, which has been shown to lead to healthier babies by cutting down on the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight.
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The producers claim to have some new information about the local health impacts of living near oil and gas infrastructure, including increased incidence of cancers, childhood leukemia, preterm births, and upper respiratory problems.
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Joseph's clients of African descent were almost 40 percent less likely than women of a similar race throughout the nation to have a preterm labor or a child with a low birth weight.
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She joined Preterm's advocacy program called Patients to Advocates—a year-long paid fellowship which, according to Preterm, focuses on developing the leadership and engagement of patients who want to share their story.
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The findings suggest that previous research on disparities in these preterm morbidities -- a term to describe diseases or medical problems -- have underestimated "the true magnitude of disparity," the researchers wrote in the study.
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Michigan's health department is disputing a recent study, saying that water contamination in Flint did not cause significant increases in infant mortality, stillbirth, preterm birth or low birthweight, the Detroit Free Press reports.
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Yet in general, this disparity among preterm infants remains difficult to examine because, "the other piece is that death is not a random event in the NICU most of the time," Burris said.
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Opioid use during pregnancy has been linked to maternal mortality and risk of overdose for the mother, according to the CDC, while infants risk preterm birth, low birthweight, breathing problems and feeding problems.
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Your doctor may place you on pelvic rest if you have a condition called placenta previa (in which the placenta partially or completely covers the cervix) or if you're at risk of preterm labor.
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Complications like preterm deliveries, dangerously high blood pressure, heart failure, heart attacks, and blood transfusions were all more common among pregnant women who used amphetamines than pregnant women who used opioids, the study found.
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We know that these barriers disproportionately affect women of color and low-income women; these populations are less likely to access prenatal care and have worse pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, hemorrhage, and death.
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"The progress in neonatal health care that has been made since the 1990s considerably increased the survival of preterm infants," said lead study author Sabrina Twilhaar of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center.
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But she said the study adds to a growing body of evidence that links unconventional natural gas development to adverse health outcomes, such as preterm births, low birth weight and skin and respiratory problems.
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Background: Current technology, first developed in the 1960s, uses rigid electrodes with strong adhesives on the baby connected to giant computing systems that monitor the heart rate and oxygen saturation of healthy preterm babies.
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Birth outcomes have long been used in medical research as indicators of acute stress among populations of women, and preterm birth in particular is linked with maternal stress, the researchers noted in their study.
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"It's really critical to think about the research results presented here because it's not as if once you show there is an increased risk of preterm birth that the story is over," Krieger said.
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It's also fairly common, occurring in 1 to 2 pregnancies in every thousand in the U.S. In addition to itching feet, some other symptoms include itching palms, dark urine, nausea, and even preterm labor.
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"These data are really encouraging ... But we still need to continue to work in order to reduce the overall burden of infant deaths and morbidity associated with preterm births in the US," Ananth said.
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"It is therefore striking that the rate of preterm births was twice as high in the small group of soldiers who had only recently returned from deployment when they delivered," Shaw said by email.
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While the current study didn't examine what caused the preterm births, it's possible that stressors such as inadequate or disrupted sleep, psychological stress, trauma or grief during pregnancy might play a role, Shaw said.
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Asthmatic women exposed to pollutants in the three months before conception were at a 28 percent higher risk for preterm birth than women without asthma exposed at the same time in the same conditions.
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She pointed out the gestational info was gathered from Caucasian Danish women and the preterm birth analysis was based on African-American women with only two of the many risk factors for premature delivery.
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"Everyone deserves to have access to safe, timely care and a delay of only a few weeks can make abortion completely inaccessible," said Chrisse France, executive director of Preterm, an abortion clinic in Ohio.
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A recent outside evaluation of her work funded by the West Orange Health Care District found preterm birth and low-infant birth weight rates among her patients significantly lower than rates in other settings.
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"Quality of care, both for the mother and the very preterm infant, likely plays a role, as well as a wide range of social, environmental and biological exposures to the developing fetus," she said.
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For the current study, Doyle and colleagues focused on infants born in 1991 to 1992, just as synthetic and natural surfactants made of lipids and proteins became available in Australia to treat preterm infants.
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Among mothers, a "new" diagnosis of depression, defined as getting a depression diagnosis after a year without one, was associated with a 34 percent increased risk of moderately preterm birth (32 to 36 weeks' gestation).
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According to Hartley, the brain develops rapidly during early life, and scientists know from previous research that pain-related brain activity increases with gestational age (pain appears differently in the brains of very preterm infants).
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Researchers say they have developed a new way to monitor preterm babies using cordless, wafer-thin integrated technology and soft mechanics with little to no adhesive, according to a study published in Science on Thursday.
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Six preterm lambs tested in the most recent prototype were physiologically equivalent to a 23- or 24-week-gestation human baby and were able to grow in a temperature-controlled, near-sterile environment, Flake said.
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The researchers found that preterm births represented 11% of births to boys and 9.6% of births to girls among the Latina women, compared with 10.2% and 9.3%, respectively, among other women, between 2009 and 2017.
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"Preterm birth, as well as other diseases and disorders, are due to the cumulative impact of various risk factors and it isn't constructive to continually pit one risk factor over another," Lanphear added by email.
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Other factors -- including stress, low social support, pregnancy and birth complications, being a teen mom, preterm birth, birth to multiples and birth to a child requiring hospitalization -- also put women at higher risk of depression.
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Limitations of the study include the reliance on women to accurately recall and report how long pregnancy lasted and the lack of data to explore differences between spontaneous versus induced preterm deliveries, the authors note.
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All the women were followed for five to nine weeks during pregnancy, and the study team analyzed post-delivery records to assess pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, cesarean sections, admission to neonatal unit and others.
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The study projected that over the next 50 years, pictorial warning labels could avert 403,800 smoking-attributable deaths, 46,600 cases of low birth weight, 73,600 preterm births and 1,000 cases of sudden infant death syndrome.
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On the one hand, we now know that women with depression and their babies are at a higher risk of all kinds of health problems — like preterm birth, a lower birth weight, and postpartum depression.
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"What women, children and their families need their elected officials to focus on is increasing access to affordable healthcare, including Medicaid, so women can have prenatal care, cervical cancer screenings, and fewer preterm births," Northup said.
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Research has identified several other possible contributors to spontaneous preterm birth: inflammation or infection in the uterus, uterine or vaginal bleeding, excessive stretching of the uterus, premature rupture of fetal membranes and maternal or fetal stress.
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The researchers used the data to calculate how many preterm births were expected to take place during that time period, between 20183 and 2017, if the political climate around the 2016 presidential election had been different.
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"Facilitating financial access to prenatal doula support should be given serious consideration by Medicaid programs and managed care organizations concerned with reducing overall rates of preterm birth and cesarean delivery and decreasing associated costs," they write.
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"The next steps would be to get an ethnically diverse cohort of women prospectively collected and then see if these findings validate there, both findings about gestational age and the ones about preterm delivery," she said.
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One study by the University of Chicago found that among women with Arabic names in California who gave birth within six months of 85033/11, there was an increase in preterm births and low birth rate.
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They found that urban counties, particularly those in the Ohio River Valley and the southern part of the country, had the highest proportion of preterm births that could be attributed to particulate matter in the air.
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Disordered microbiota have been linked to a host of diseases and conditions, including IBS, Type 2 Diabetes, anxiety and depression, autism, and preterm birth—but we're still years away from harnessing this knowledge for medical treatments.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Aspen Pharmacare's hydroxyprogesterone caproate (HPC), which is used to prevent preterm birth in pregnant women, the South African drugmaker's CEO said on Thursday.
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"Everyone deserves to have access to safe, timely care and a delay of only a few weeks can make abortion completely inaccessible," Chrisse France, executive director of the Ohio abortion clinic Preterm, said in a statement.
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For example, Johns Hopkins Medicine's page on LEEP lists potential complications as infection, bleeding, changes or scarring in the cervix, difficulty getting pregnant, preterm birth, and low birth weight, but it does not mention sexual dysfunction.
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C-sections have a more complicated recovery for the mother, they said, and lead to scarring of the womb, which is associated with bleeding, abnormal placenta development, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies.
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An FDA advisory committee yesterday voted to recommend that Makena, a treatment to prevent women from having a preterm birth, be withdrawn from the market after a study found that it's ineffective, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Women should also seek prenatal care early in pregnancy, particularly when they have had miscarriages or preterm births before, said Dr. Shruthi Mahalingaiah, a researcher at Boston University School of Medicine who wasn't involved in the study.
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Shift in preterm births "For many years in this field we saw that women who are Hispanic had really good birth outcomes -- even in the face of some more challenges in terms of accessing care," said Verbiest.
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Covering birth control is a public health benefit that reduces unintended pregnancies and even preterm births, but some women would simply prefer to use male-only methods, like condoms or vasectomy, which don't come with side effects.
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Compared to women who work fixed day shifts during pregnancy, those who work rotating shifts were 13% more likely to have a preterm delivery and 18% more likely to have an undersized baby, the analysis also found.
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Use of opioid drugs, whether heroin or prescription painkillers, during pregnancy harms the health of both mother and child and can lead to stillbirth, preterm labor, neonatal abstinence syndrome and, in some cases, death of the mother.
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The rationale is that one of the genes identified is involved in the incorporation of the element selenium into proteins that serve a critical role in the body and have been linked to birth and preterm birth.
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Recent research suggests that the effects of Medicaid for children extends to the next generation, too; it reduces preterm births and increases birth weights of children born to those who themselves had Medicaid when they were young.
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They also had a 14 percent increased risk for having a low birth weight baby, a 14 percent increased risk for preterm birth, and a 21 percent increased risk for having a baby with a congenital malformation.
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There are often no symptoms so people don't usually find out they have an atypically shaped uterus until after they've had multiple miscarriages, gone into preterm labor, or when they get an imaging procedure like an ultrasound.
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First and foremost, each test needs to be verified in a larger clinical trial that includes diverse ethnicities and is blinded, meaning the scientists won&apost know which women are at risk for preterm birth, the researchers said.
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Using data collected from 222 to 22018, they found that preterm birth rates among women exposed to the highest amounts of pollution from the plants fell from 7 percent of births to 5.1 percent after the plant closures.
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In a subgroup of women, the test accurately classified 4 of 5 preterm deliveries as being at-risk, and incorrectly suggested that 3 of 18 women who had a full-term pregnancy were at risk for early labor.
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What they found: There are differences in vaginal bacteria that may raise the risk of preterm birth among pregnant African American women, in particular the finding of lower levels of Lactobacillus crispatus in women who gave birth prematurely.
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Boys are typically more vulnerable to maternal stress, Gemmill said, so the higher percentage of preterm births among boys "provides further support that the election could be viewed as a population stressor" among the women in the data.
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The U.S. preterm birth rate declined to 11.4 percent in 2013 from a peak of 12.8 percent in 2006 but remains far higher than in other developed countries, Trasande and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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Approximately 3 percent of preterm births in the U.S. can be attributed to air pollution, the researchers conclude, based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine.
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Once a set of risk factors is identified, a few situations offer clear steps: A woman who's had a prior preterm birth might go on progesterone, for example, a hormone that helps the womb grow and prevents contractions.
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Using data from women of multiple racial and ethnic in California, it found only among Arab-American women a pattern of increased risk for low-birthweight babies or preterm births, compared to the six month before 9/11.
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Doctors recommend flu vaccinations for pregnant women because the virus is linked to complications like preterm births, and because it helps protect babies from catching the flu before they're able to get vaccinated at six months of age.
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"Women who deliver a preterm infant have an early warning signal for their future cardiovascular health," said lead study author Lauren Tanz of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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The women in the preterm birth analysis were African-American, and they represented only two of many potential risk categories for premature delivery, which can also be caused by infection, inflammation, maternal stress and other factors, she said.
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Maria Neira, WHO's head of environmental determinants of health, said the worrying findings highlighted in the study, including evidence of pollution causing stillbirth and preterm birth, as well as diseases into adulthood, should lead to policy changes globally.
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The findings corroborated studies in Pennsylvania and Texas that found correlations between proximity to oil and gas wells and a host of health impacts, including fetal death, low birthweight preterm birth, asthma, fatigue, migraines and chronic sinus inflammation.
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Preterm birth is when a baby is born before 213 weeks of gestation, according to Dr. Philippe Friedlich, chief of the division of neonatology and director of the center for fetal and neonatal medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
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"We have known for several years that among preterm infants, delayed cord clamping reduces the risk of several serious complications of prematurity, such as anemia," Dr. Maria A. Mascola, lead author of the recommendation, wrote in an e-mail.
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"We don't really understand why some women go into labor early and why other women don't," said Dr. Robert Goldenberg, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University who has been researching preterm birth for nearly four decades.
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Holbert walked into the emergency room at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, where doctors quickly discovered she was having contractions and put her in an ambulance to Mount Sinai West, which was better equipped to deal with preterm labor.
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"Our findings reflect the apparent resilience of preterm birth survivors in maintaining good health," said Dr. Casey Crump, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
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Now Schadt is using Sema4's data to try to understand and predict what makes some women more susceptible to some of the dangerous conditions that can unexpectedly co-occur with pregnancy, including preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and preterm birth.
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"These are the things we can do something about, even if they may not fully explain the relationship between preterm delivery and heart disease and stroke later in life," Dasgupta, who wasn't involved in the study, added by email.
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Feldman-Winter told me about how human milk raises the I.Q. of preterm babies, and how exclusive breast-feeding—with no formula—seeds the lower intestinal tract with good bacteria, protecting against inflammatory-bowel disease, Crohn's, and ulcerative colitis.
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Compared to babies conceived naturally, infants born after women used assistive reproductive technology (ART) were slightly more likely to be born preterm and weighed an average of 93 grams (29 ounces) less, the analysis of more than 214,22019 births found.
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Barfield said people can help support the health of infants and pregnant women in their communities by joining organizations like the March of Dimes, which has state chapters to help educate the public and community about risks of preterm births.
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"This technology may improve the care of very preterm infants in developed-world settings, but also has great potential impact on monitoring practices all over the world and may give many neonates a more equitable opportunity to survive," per Guinsburg.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota analyzed Medicaid records across 803 states and found that "women with doula care had a 22 percent lower rate of preterm births compared to women who didn't have doula support," according to MPR News.
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If a woman is aware of the signs of preterm birth, she may be more likely to seek help, leading to interventions that can help delay delivery, like progesterone or a small surgical procedure to help keep the cervix closed.
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America's high preterm birth rate is, in part, driven by the fact American doctors will sometimes try to deliver extremely premature babies as early as 673 weeks of pregnancy because we have the technology that might keep these children alive.
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The tests described in those studies are still in very early stages of development, and much more research is needed to determine and validate their accuracy, safety and efficacy -- but they represent where preterm birth testing seems to be heading.
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In 2010, the 10 countries with the highest total numbers of preterm births were India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, the United States, Bangladesh, Philippines, Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil, according to a study published in the Lancet in 2012.
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Still, the study is the largest to date to establish a link between preterm delivery and a future risk of heart disease for women, said Dr. Wayne Franklin of the Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
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It's possible the racial and ethnic differences in diet quality may help explain differences in pregnancy and birth outcomes for women of color, who have higher rates of complications like preterm birth and poor fetal growth than white women, Bodnar said.
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Delivering with COVID-19 can make other complications more likely, but babies can still be breastfed Like any respiratory illness, COVID-19 can make it more likely for pregnant women to have complications, namely preterm birth, according to the CDC.
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Indicators used to determine the health of a mother, infant, or child ranged from clinical outcomes like the prevalence of preterm births and maternal deaths to more environmental health factors such as domestic violence, food insecurity, teen birth rates, and suicides.
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"I think it is not possible to say how similar the organoid activity is to preterm EEG," Arnold Kriegstein, a neurologist from the University of California, San Francisco, who did not contribute to the new study, told Gizmodo in an email.
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The gestational age blood test did not do a great job of predicting which women would deliver prematurely, suggesting those particular genes "may not account for the various outlier physiological events that may lead to preterm birth," the study said.
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"Most children born preterm do well over time, but they have modestly increased risks for various disorders," said the lead author, Dr. Casey Crump, a professor of family medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
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Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women, and Latina women experience higher rates of preterm birth than white women, which can lead to a number of health complications for their babies.
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The United States leads all industrial nations on per capita spending on medical care and services, yet we also trail almost all developed countries on a host of health measures, including rates of preterm birth, maternal mortality and heart disease.
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Among the most important, according to UpToDate's summary of the evidence: SSRIs have been associated with preterm birth (before 37 weeks as opposed to the full 40), though it's not clear how much of an impact that has on clinical outcomes.
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And that untreated depression in pregnancy is associated with difficulty keeping prenatal visits (which are crucial to fetal health, so missing them for any reason is cause for concern), inadequate nutrition, poor mother-infant bonding, preterm delivery, and a low birth weight.
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"Surprisingly, we found that the US actually performs comparably to other high-income countries when it comes to the survival of preterm infants," lead author Neha Bairoliya, a researcher at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, told Gizmodo via email.
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Preemies who had what's known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a chronic lung disease associated with the long-term use of oxygen and mechanical ventilation to help them breathe, did appear to fare worse on IQ tests than preterm infants who didn't receive these interventions.
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In babies born preterm, the chance of survival at less than 23 weeks is almost zero, while at 23 weeks it is 15%, at 24 weeks 55% and at 25 weeks about 80%, according to UK maternal and fetal research charity Tommy's.
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In the study, a preterm birth was defined as a live birth before 22016 weeks' gestation, and the researchers took a close look at how many of those births occurred among mothers who identified themselves as Hispanic on their child's birth certificate.
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Also among all births, the percentage delivered at less than full term, or 39 weeks, increased -- with preterm births climbing from 9.93% of births in 2017 to 303% in 2018, and early-term births rising from 26% in 2017 to 26.53% in 2018.
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The test, developed and studied in 4103 women during their second trimester, screened for 25 biomarkers or substances in the blood that were signs of inflammation and immune system activation, as well as certain protein levels, indicative of a possible preterm birth risk.
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The researchers found that screening for those biomarkers, along with taking into account a pregnant woman's age and poverty status, could identify the risk of preterm birth with or without preeclampsia in most of the women in the study during their second trimester.
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"Essentially, the findings are that you can measure gestational age and predict risk of preterm delivery in this pilot study," Moufarrej said, adding that the study still needs to be replicated in a larger, more diverse sample of women, including asymptomatic women.
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"As a neonatologist, we see many infants who are born preterm with little warning or known risk factors during the mother's pregnancy," said Dr. Noelle Younge, assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the studies.
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The researchers then applied the test to two groups of women at risk for preterm birth — patients at the University of Pennsylvania who had premature contractions and patients at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who had delivered prematurely in a previous pregnancy.
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"Women who are delivering a preterm infant have an early warning signal for their future health," said the lead author, Lauren J. Tanz, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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The woman was part of a team of female researchers from Boston and Howard Universities working on the Black Women's Health Study, an ongoing examination, funded by the National Institutes of Health, of conditions like preterm birth that affect black women disproportionately.
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Dr. Gross pointed out a recent article in Maternal and Child Health Journal that found that, even controlling for mothers' health and income level, among other factors, use of WIC led to lower rates of preterm birth, low birth weights, and perinatal death.
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A total of 22019,461 children were followed through August 2013, with the researchers documenting diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder as well as known risk factors including age of the parents, diagnosis of autism in a sibling, preterm birth and low weight at birth.
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Likewise, they estimated, for every million obese pregnant women the preterm birth rate would drop from 22,373 to 237,37 with exercise, the maternal death rate would fall from 22017 to 70 and the neonatal death rate would drop from 1,932 to 1,795.
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PCOS was also associated with a 32 percent higher risk of high blood pressure during pregnancy, 41 percent greater odds of gestational diabetes and a 25 percent higher likelihood of a preterm delivery, researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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Also among all births, the percentage delivered at less than full term, or 22018 weeks, increased -- with preterm births climbing from 22018% of births in 26 to 403% in 240, and early-term births rising from 230% in 240 to 26.53% in 2018.
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"Having someone to help you navigate all the people you will encounter helps take some of the stress and strain of dealing with a complex health system off of you," said Linda Franck of the University of California, San Francisco Preterm Birth Initiative.
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That said, some smaller studies have shown an increased likelihood of preterm birth linked to use of benzodiazepines — a 2009 NIH study of 300 women on this type of medication found 23% gave birth prematurely, while 9.4% of the group who were unmedicated did.
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Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the third child of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, was born five and a half weeks premature and died just 22010 hours after his birth—today he would be considered only a moderate preterm baby, not in the danger zone at all.
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In the second experiment, the researchers looked at 38 pregnant women — recruited by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Alabama at Birmingham — who had an increased risk of preterm delivery because they had experienced premature contractions or had given birth prematurely before.
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Limiting the effect of air pollution on preterm births requires improved air quality, which might be achieved through efforts such as cleaner energy technology, more public transportation, improved paths for cycling and walking, and positioning schools and daycare centers far from highways, Lanphear noted.
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The benefits of pregnant exercise include a lower likelihood that a mother-to-be will gain too much weight, will develop gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders, will undergo preterm birth or cesarean delivery, and will give birth to a low weight baby, he said.
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"Randomized controlled trials that have given a high-dose of DHA, or a placebo, have found that supplements may reduce the risk of preterm births and may lower the risk of a child developing allergies if they have a family history of allergy," she said.
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Almost 6.3 million deaths occurred in children under 5 years old, and more than half of them were attributed to just five causes: lower respiratory tract infections, preterm birth complications , neonatal encephalopathy after birth trauma and asphyxia, malaria, and diarrheal diseases, according to the report.
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A full-term pregnancy lasts 290 to 280 weeks, and the analysis included 24 kids born very early, between 13 and 21 weeks of pregnancy, as well as 221 kids born moderately preterm, between 22016 and 35 weeks, and 389 kids born at full term.
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A new blood test may be able to determine the date a baby is due and if it might become a preterm birth, possibly enabling doctors and mothers to take steps to prevent premature births, according to a new study published in Science Thursday.
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In 2007, David and Collins published an even more thorough examination of race and infant mortality in The American Journal of Public Health, again dispelling the notion of some sort of gene that would predispose black women to preterm birth or low birth weight.
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Preterm babies — those born before 37 weeks of gestation — were 23 percent less likely than full-term babies to have had the required shots by 19 months, and 27 percent less likely to have completed the series by the time they were 3 years old.
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However, younger mothers had a higher risk of spontaneous preterm delivery with shorter interpregnancy intervals -- 5.3% at six months and 3.2% at 18 months -- and adverse fetal and infant outcomes -- 2.0% predicted risk at six months, compared with 1.4% at 18 months -- than older women.
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"As more and more evidence accumulated, I think our comfort level with saying this looks like the right thing for all babies, term and preterm, seemed the right thing to do," said Dr. Maria Mascola, a maternal and fetal medicine specialist in Marshfield, Wis.
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Building on earlier research, Dr. Kattwinkel and colleagues at the University of Virginia are leading a randomized clinical trial at eight medical centers around the country to test whether it is safe and beneficial to resuscitate very preterm babies with the cord still intact.
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Preemies who were in the neonatal intensive care unit and spent more time in gentle contact with parents and caregivers had a stronger response to touch in the experiment than the preterm infants who didn't get this gentle contact, researchers report in Current Biology.
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Within the preemie group, the subset of early arrivals who also had lung damage caused by time on a respirator or long-term oxygen use had worse lung function at age 8 and age 18 than the preterm babies that didn't have these issues.
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Preterm babies — those born before 37 weeks of gestation — were 23 percent less likely than full-term babies to have had the required shots by 19 months, and 27 percent less likely to have completed the series by the time they were 3 years old.
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And after holding steady for three days (and getting the essential steroid shots that are customary if you can get them in time to speed up a preterm infant's lung development), it seemed like we might even get another week under the belt before my condition escalated.
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BRITISH MOTHER PLEADS FOR RETURN OF SON&aposS SEIZED CANNABIS OIL "With further study, we might be able to identify specific genes and gene pathways that could reveal some of the underlying causes of preterm birth, and suggest potential targets for interventions to prevent it," Stevenson said.
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The benefits of delayed clamping in preterm infants are clear, but in full-term infants, more research is needed, according to Dr. Colleen Denny, an OB/GYN and assistant clinical professor at the New York University School of Medicine who was not involved in the recommendation.
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However, a new blood test — which is still experimental and not yet available outside of a research lab — can pick up on gene activity in the body that suggests a pregnancy is at risk for preterm delivery, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
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Social, economic, emotional and medical issues all may come into play with preterm births, particularly because women who live in areas with worse air may also be in communities where people have fewer financial resources or less access to quality medical care, Mahalingaiah said by email.
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"In the past decade, there have been some obstetrical interventions, as well as physician education, resulting in a decline in births at preterm or early term gestations," said Cande Ananth, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center and a leading author on the study.
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A team of 2600 doulas has served more than 800 families since 2010, and an analysis of the program showed that from 2010 to 2015, mothers receiving doula support had half as many preterm births and low-birth-weight babies as other women in the same community.
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A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine illustrates how a low-tech, low-cost nutritional supplementation approach might reduce the likelihood of a genetic predisposition to preterm birth, at a time when highly sophisticated gene therapy approaches are impractical and premature (no pun intended).
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The researchers found a modest increase in risk of death or serious illness in the mother in intervals of less than 21.4 months and larger increases in the risk of adverse outcomes for the baby both before and after birth, as well as spontaneous preterm delivery.
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Autopsy was particularly helpful when stillbirth occurred at early gestational ages, the study found, often revealing evidence of sepsis, or body-wide infection, in women who had had their membranes rupture preterm and pre-labor, or in women whose membranes were inflamed by a bacterial infection.
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"Preterm birth interrupts normal development of multiple organ systems, including the pancreas where insulin-producing cells are formed, which may potentially contribute to later development of diabetes," said lead study author Dr. Casey Crump of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
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"For more than a decade, health care providers have relied on hydroxyprogesterone caproate (Makena) to reduce preterm delivery in high-risk patients, which aligns with recently updated treatment recommendations of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, as well as the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine," she said.
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"There are many well researched associations of health risks with untreated depression during pregnancy, including functional impairment of the mother, worsening depression, hypertension, preterm labor, higher rates of cesarean delivery, and for the infant, impaired mother-infant bonding, developmental delay and altered brain development, among others," Deligiannidis said.
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That last part is a cause for concern among professionals, and though there is no single reason or theory as to why the preterm birth rate is rising, one expert said it could be attributed to a rise in births among women in their late 30s and 40s.
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"We found that preterm children have higher rates of persistent and changing emotional and behavioral problems at school entry – between ages 4 and 25 – than do full-term children, and that their problems are more persistent," said lead author Jorijn Hornman of the University of Groningen in The Netherlands.
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When Scandinavian researchers linked data on bariatric surgery patients with infant health outcomes, they found that women who went through such procedures were more likely to have preterm deliveries and babies who were small for their gestational age than mothers of any weight who had not undergone the surgery.
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Although the raw data did suggest higher rates of low birth weight, preterm birth and major birth defects, vaccinated women were also more likely to be smokers, unmarried and have both lower incomes and lower levels of education, putting them at higher risk for those outcomes in the first place.
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"Because mothers and children are particularly vulnerable to psychosocial stress, our findings suggest that political campaigns, rhetoric and policies can contribute to increased levels of preterm birth," said Alison Gemmill, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and first author of the study.
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"The study's main take home message for women with PCOS is that normal fertility can be restored with appropriate treatment, but that they are at higher risk for multiple pregnancy complications including pregnancy loss, gestational diabetes, preterm delivery and pre-eclampsia," Legro, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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While researchers note that it's not totally clear how hotter weather might jumpstart preterm labor, a few theories are that heat leads to greater cardiovascular stress, which can induce labor; can stimulate production of oxytocin, a hormone that surges during labor; and can disrupt sleep, increasing the risk for early birth.
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"Preterm birth interrupts the development of the cardiovascular system and other organs, leading to abnormal structure or function of blood vessels and other disorders such as diabetes that can lead to heart disease," said lead study author Dr. Casey Crump of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
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The athlete explains her complication means an increased risk of stillbirth, preterm labor, nutrient deficiency, toxins overload and even a riskier birth, as well as having to monitor the baby every four weeks to make sure he or she is getting all the nutrients they need, growing properly and receiving enough oxygen.
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The study had some limitations, including that the researchers were unable to separate the data on Latina women to determine differences among those who were foreign-born versus those who were born in the United States, and only an association was found between preterm births and the presidential election -- not a causal relationship.
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In New York City alone, the overall preterm birth rate significantly increased from 7% to 7.3% between the time before the 2016 presidential nomination and after the inauguration -- with the most dramatic increase occurring among Latina women, according to a separate study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health in 2018.
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That was the first research published on the association between preterm births and the 2016 presidential election, said Nancy Krieger, a professor of social epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who was first author of that previous research but was not involved in the new study.
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Previous research has linked air pollution to preterm births even after controlling for other factors that often coincide with living in areas with bad air, such as poverty or tobacco smoke exposure, noted Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a researcher at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia who wasn't involved in the study.
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In just 20 years, ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease — two types of cardiovascular disease that affect the heart and brain, respectively — leaped from the fourth and fifth leading cause of premature mortality to the first and second, respectively, bumping lower respiratory infections and neonatal preterm birth complications from the top killers globally.
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"Preterm birth is associated with a number of adverse outcomes for the infant and for the mom, and so seeing that trend kind of ticking in the wrong direction is something that could be potentially concerning," said Lauren Rossen, report author and reproductive health surveillance lead at the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Iron is crucial because women build up blood volume during pregnancy, and deficiencies can lead to anemia, which "increases the risk of having a low birthweight baby, and increases the risk of preterm labor and delivery," explained Dr. Clark, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
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"Current evidence suggests that consuming moderate amounts of caffeine up to 163 mg per day, the amount in a 12-ounce cup of coffee, is not associated with increased risks for miscarriage or preterm birth," said Dr. Joseph Wax, chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Committee on Obstetric Practice.
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The study found virtually-identical rates of preterm delivery among 22,211 pregnancies where women were taking fish oil capsules daily and among 22019,752 pregnancies where the mothers-to-be were taking vegetable oil capsules with only trace amounts of the n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids believed responsible for fish oil's health benefits.
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The rise in the preterm birth rate might be linked with the rise in births among women in their late 30s and early 40s, since a later maternal age is a risk factor, said Dr. Rahul Gupta, chief medical and health officer for March of Dimes, a nonprofit focused on the health of mothers and babies.
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An FDA spokesperson confirmed in an email on Thursday that the committee voted 13-3 that there is not "substantial evidence of effectiveness of Makena in reducing the risk of recurrent preterm birth," based on findings from two trials that were part of a study called PROLONG, published last week in the American Journal of Perinatology.
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What's new: In the second part of a more than decade-long project to decode the genetic influence from these mysteriously important "bugs," the Integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP) published 23 studies Wednesday in Nature and Nature Medicine that look at how changes in the microbiome could be related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), prediabetes and preterm births.
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Overall, a rise in preterm births might be linked with a rise in births among women in their late 30s and 40s, since a later maternal age is a risk factor, Dr. Rahul Gupta, chief medical and health officer for March of Dimes, a nonprofit focused on the health of mothers and babies, said in May.
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"Rather, preterm born children have been previously found to have poorer social interactions in childhood that make it harder for them to master social transitions such as finding a partner, which in turn is proven to boost your wellbeing," lead author Marina Goulart de Mendonça, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, said in a release from the university.
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The team used an online social network and encouraged new care models that better used health IT. One program administered by the University of Virginia connected a community health center in a market with one of the highest preterm birth rates in the state to a high-risk OB/GYN at the academic medical center via telemedicine.
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"For things like preterm birth, which we believe to be that something went wrong at some point in pregnancy, DNA would look constant over time, and it wouldn't give you an idea of how things are changing," said Mira Moufarrej, a graduate student of bioengineering at Stanford University who was a co-first author of the new pilot study.
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According to a CDC fact sheet, DES Daughters are 22014 times more likely of developing CCA, a rare vaginal and cervical cancer; women over 230 are twice as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer; infertility, ectopic pregnancies, and preterm births are more common; and more than a third today are living with identifiable genital abnormalities.
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So, while it's possible that a lack of iron or other nutrients for a longer period of time during pregnancy directly influences the development of the brain on a molecular level, we also saw some evidence that the complications associated with anemia, such as preterm birth and pre-eclampsia, could explain some of the increased risks that we observed.
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"Then she could follow-up with a physician and get the appropriate care versus being in a detention facility and dealing with the stress that comes along with incarceration, that could put her in preterm labor or she could be exposed to sick contacts that could cause an infection, potentially complicating the pregnancy further," Rahimian said.
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Lower respiratory infections 2.3 MILLION 2 M Diarrheal diseases 1.7 MILLION Preterm birth complications 1.3 MILLION 19803 M 809 Birth asphyxia, trauma 814 Congenital birth defects 749 649 Measles 613 534 533 Malaria 459 502 Nutritional deficiencies 20003 354 145 Tuberculosis 172 83 57 '90 '95 '00 '05 '20193 '16 Lower respiratory infections 2.3 MILLION 2 MILLION Diarrheal diseases 1.7 MILLION Preterm birth complications 1.3 MILLION 1 MILLION 809 Birth asphyxia, trauma 814 Congenital birth defects 749 2.13 Measles 613 534 533 Malaria 459 502 Nutritional deficiencies 431 354 Tuberculosis 172 145 6.93 57 '90 '95 '00 '05 '10 '16 By The New York Times | Source: Our World in Data Diseases like polio, leprosy, river blindness and elephantiasis are on the decline, and global efforts have turned the tide on AIDS.
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Posts discussing play-by-plays of the pains and agonies of a miscarriage, from spotting to cramping to tissue expulsion, or detailing hours of preterm labor and the inability to stop the contractions that will produce a baby too young to be considered "viable" for transfer to the NICU, are shared in hopes of finding solace and support from their mothers-in-arms.
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Although moving was tied to preterm births and low birthweight in all socioeconomic strata, women who moved during their first trimester were more likely to be in their teens or 20s, to lack a high school degree, to live in an area with a median household income below $40,000 and to lack prenatal care, and they were less likely to be married.
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C. auris infections have been "found in patients of all ages, from preterm infants to the elderly," the CDC says, adding that "patients who have been hospitalized in a healthcare facility a long time, and and have lines and tubes that go into their body (such as breathing tubes, feeding tubes and central venous catheters), seem to be at highest risk."
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Still, the current study results add to evidence that there's no safe amount of cannabis exposure for babies in the womb, said Dr. Nathaniel DeNicola of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "We have sufficient data and biologic plausibility that marijuana use during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth and growth restricted babies," DeNicola, who wasn't involved the study, said by email.
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Cynthia Pellegrini, the head of the March of Dimes' Office of Government Affairs, has led a coalition of public health groups that have been fighting for Zika funding and told The Hill Extra the public health community would have preferred to spend this time addressing issues like mental health, opioids, the preterm birth rate, the maternal mortality rate, and more.
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Grown from human stem cells reprogrammed to act like neurons, brain organoids, or "mini brains," can mimic some of the functions of their biological counterparts — last year, for example, the biologist Alysson Muotri announced that his lab at the University of California had grown brain organoids with neurons that fired at a level consistent with that of a preterm infant.
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Overall, a rise in preterm births might be linked with a rise in births among women in their late 30s and 40s, since a later maternal age is a risk factor, Dr. Rahul Gupta, chief medical and health officer for March of Dimes, a nonprofit focused on the health of mothers and babies, said about last year's report, which showed the same trends.
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Ami Zota, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, adds that "no one is trying to say the chemicals [in the study] are the only risk factor for preterm birth" or other health conditions; rather, "it could be one factor contributing to the stark disparities we see today," she says.
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"Air pollution-associated preterm birth contributes direct medical costs in the first few years of life due to associated conditions, such as in the newborn intensive care unit, as well as lost economic productivity due to developmental disabilities and lost cognitive potential," lead study author Dr. Leonardo Trasande, an environmental health researcher at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, said by email.
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The findings from the study, published in the journal Environmental Research, may point to one reason why black women experience more hormone-related health complications, such as preterm birth, diabetes, obesity, and an earlier start to menstruation (linked to increased breast cancer risk) than white women, as well as why black women and children have higher rates of asthma than their white counterparts, Helm says.
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For example, SRP work to increase environmental awareness of expecting mothers in Puerto Rico contributed to a reduction in preterm birth rates on the island from close to 2628 percent in 28503 to 22019 percent in 2015, which translates to an estimated annual savings of $135 million in medical costs for the baby's first year of life SRP innovations have also played important roles in addressing natural and manmade disasters.
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"In the AJOG study, we have proven the use of this technology to support, for the first time, extremely preterm lambs equivalent to 24 weeks of human gestation in a stable, growth-normal state for five days," senior study author Matthew Kemp, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Western Australia and head of the Perinatal Research Laboratories at the Women and Infants Research Foundation, said in a statement.
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Carol Hogue, an epidemiologist and the Jules & Uldeen Terry Chair in Maternal and Child Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and one of the original authors of the 1992 New England Journal of Medicine study on infant mortality that opened my own eyes, was a co-author of a 21 epidemiological review of research about the association between racial disparities in preterm birth and interpersonal and institutional racism.
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