Unplanned cesarean sections in advanced maternal age: A predictive model
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica ScandinavicaIntroduction As maternal age during pregnancy is rising all over the world, there is a growing need for prognostic factors that determine maternal and perinatal outcomes in older women.
Joyce Veenstra +9 more
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Mitochondria, Maternal Inheritance, and Male Aging [PDF]
Current Biology, 2012 The maternal transmission of mitochondrial genomes invokes a sex-specific selective sieve, whereby mutations in mitochondrial DNA can only respond to selection acting directly on females. In theory, this enables male-harming mutations to accumulate in mitochondrial genomes when these same mutations are neutral, beneficial, or only slightly deleterious ...
Camus, M. Florencia +2 more
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Exercise epigenetics and the foetal origins of disease [PDF]
, 2014 Exercise epigenetics is a nascent area of research with vast health implications (e.g., from the treatment of obesity-related diseases to beneficially decoupling epigenetic and chronological age).
Dale E, Thomas EW Chalk, William M Brown
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Journal of Nepal Medical AssociationIntroduction: In the neonatal period, a variety of cutaneous symptoms are frequent. To minimize unneeded therapy and to reduce parents' stress, it's important to distinguish between transient and pathological newborn dermatoses.
Anil Timilsina +2 more
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Inhibitory control as a mediator of bidirectional effects between early oppositional behavior and maternal depression. [PDF]
, 2014 Maternal depression is an established risk factor for child conduct problems, but relatively few studies have tested whether children's behavioral problems exacerbate mothers' depression or whether other child behavioral characteristics (e.g., self ...
Brennan, Lauretta M +4 more
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Current status of laboratory and imaging diagnosis of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2018 Necrotizing enterocolitis continues to be a devastating disease process for very low birth weight infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. The aetiology and pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis are not definitively understood.
Gabriella D’Angelo +9 more
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Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding and its determinants in first 6 months of life: A prospective study [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Exclusive breastfeeding for first 6 months of life is recommended under Infant and Young Child Feeding practices in India. The objective of present study was to estimate the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding during first 6 months of life ...
Amin, Chikitsa D +2 more
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Variation in early life maternal care predicts later long range frontal cortex synapse development in mice. [PDF]
, 2020 Empirical and theoretical work suggests that early postnatal experience may inform later developing synaptic connectivity to adapt the brain to its environment.
Chang, Irene +3 more
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Association between maternal age and postpartum depression in Ardabil, Northwest of Iran: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement JournalIntroduction: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder that negatively affects mother, child and family. This study aims to examine the association between maternal age and postpartum depression.
Afrouz Mardi +4 more
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Why are so many Nepali women killing themselves? A review of key issues [PDF]
, 2015 Background: For decades the maternal mortality in Nepal was the lead cause of death among women, with great improvements in the maternal mortality ratio in the twentieth century the second most common cause has become more prominent.
Dhungel, A. +5 more
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