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Maternal Health and HIV

Reproductive Health Matters, 2005
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the major factors affecting women's health, with 20 million women living with HIV and more than two million pregnancies in HIV-positive women each year. Most HIV infections in women are in resource-constrained settings where the risk of maternal morbidity and mortality is also unacceptably high, and where most of the 529,
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Novel PIP5K1C variant identified in a Chinese pedigree with lethal congenital contractural syndrome 3

BMC Pediatrics
Background Biallelic pathogenic variants in PIP5K1C (MIM #606,102) lead to lethal congenital contractural syndrome 3 (LCCS3, MIM #611,369), a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by small gestational age, severe multiple joint ...
Fang Zhang, Hongmei Guo, Xinlong Zhou, Zhengxi Deng, Qiuhong Xu, Qingming Wang, Haiming Yuan, Jianhua Luo   +7 more
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Ethnic disparity in pneumonia-specific mortality among children under 5 years of age in Sichuan Province of Western China from 2010 to 2017

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background To reveal the ethnic disparity in the pneumonia-specific mortality rates of children under the age of 5 years (PU5MRs) and provide suggestions regarding priority interventions to reduce preventable under-five-years-of-age deaths.
Min Luo, Ziling Zhao, Linkun He, Bingzhong Su, Weixin Liu, Gang Zhang   +5 more
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Clinical features and molecular genetic investigation of infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paralysis (IAHSP) in two Chinese siblings caused by a novel splice site ALS2 variation

BMC Medical Genomics
Objective ALS2-related disorder involves retrograde degeneration of the upper motor neurons of the pyramidal tracts, among which autosomal recessive Infantile-onset ascending hereditary spastic paralysis (IAHSP) is a rare phenotype.
Qiang Zhang, Qi Yang, Jingsi Luo, Xunzhao Zhou, Shang Yi, Shuyin Tan, Zailong Qin   +6 more
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Pregnancy of unknown location: women’s attitudes and preferences for its management

F&S Reports, 2022
Amera B. Rashed, Ph.D. in Maternal and NEwborn Health Nursing, Nervin Adel A. Ismail, Ph.D. in Medical Surgical Nursing, Marwa A. Shahin, Ph.D. in Maternal and NEwborn Health Nursing   +2 more
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Maternal near miss: An indicator for maternal health and maternal care

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2014
Maternal mortality is one of the important indicators used for the measurement of maternal health. Although maternal mortality ratio remains high, maternal deaths in absolute numbers are rare in a community. To overcome this challenge, maternal near miss has been suggested as a compliment to maternal death.
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Maternal Health

, 2010
Reply to two articles in the same New Year’s edition of the Kathmandu Post on maternal health (“Maternal deaths down in poor countries”) and (“Mothers in need”). We felt both are highly relevant to Nepal which is one of the few countries worldwide on target to meet one key element Millennium Development Goal 5, namely to reduce Maternal Mortality by ...
Simkhada, Padam, van Teijlingen, Edwin, Stephens, Jane   +2 more
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Prenatal chromosomal microarray analysis in a large Chinese cohort of fetuses with congenital heart defects: a single center study

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Background and objectives Congenital heart defect (CHD) is one of the most common birth defects. The aim of this cohort study was to evaluate the prevalence of chromosomal abnormalities and the clinical utility of chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) in
Qing Lu, Laipeng Luo, Baitao Zeng, Haiyan Luo, Xianjin Wang, Lijuan Qiu, Yan Yang, Chuanxin Feng, Jihui Zhou, Yanling Hu, Tingting Huang, Pengpeng Ma, Ting Huang, Kang Xie, Huizhen Yuan, Shuhui Huang, Bicheng Yang, Yongyi Zou, Yanqiu Liu   +18 more
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Vitamin K2 deficiency associated with short stature in children: a cross-sectional study

BMC Pediatrics
Background Short stature in children is a common concern that can result from various underlying conditions. While factors such as growth hormone deficiency and nutritional deficiencies are well-known contributors, the role of vitamin K2 (VK2) in the ...
Yanjie Shen, Geyong Shi, Shumei Wen, Wei Luo, Ke Wang   +4 more
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Improved placental vascular repair in a rat preeclampsia model by implantation of endothelial progenitor cells treated with platelet microparticles

Hypertension in Pregnancy, 2020
Objective: To detect the role of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) treated with platelet microparticles (PMPs) in preeclampsia. Methods: EPCs treated with/without PMPs were labeled and injected to PE rats.
Zhenya Fang, Anna Li, Yaqiong Sun, Xietong Wang, Meihua Zhang   +4 more
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