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Underdiagnosed: Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy
IDA increases a patient’s risk of delivering preterm and developing postpartum depression and puts their infants at a risk for perinatal mortality...
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Avoid anti-HER2 cancer therapies during pregnancy
Exposure to anti-HER2 agents was associated with “severe specific adverse pregnancy and fetal or newborn outcomes compared with exposure to other...
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Insufficient sleep impairs women’s insulin sensitivity
“What we’re seeing is that more insulin is needed to normalize glucose levels in the women under conditions of sleep restriction.”
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Despite effective therapies, fibroid care still lacking
The biggest challenge is to ensure that women can take advantage of the newer minimally invasive therapies.
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PTSD symptoms in women tied to worse heart, brain health
Outcomes of interest were associations of PTSD symptoms with carotid intima media thickness, brain white matter hyperintensity volume, and...
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Osteoarthritis as a Chronic Disease: Maximizing Management in Primary Care
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Low-dose aspirin provokes no flares in patients with IBD during pregnancy
Study provides more data on the safety of aspirin use during pregnancy in patients with IBD.
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Risks quantified in medically optimized pregnancy with lupus
Patients who were not medically optimized for pregnancy were three times more likely to experience preterm birth and preeclampsia.
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‘Smart’ stethoscope spots peripartum cardiomyopathy
Finding that 4% of the women in the intervention arm had reduced ejection fraction is “absolutely startling ... and speaks to how important...
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Maternal depressive symptoms may start at pregnancy
“The relevant clinical settings for prevention are those treating women in routine health care, including family medicine.”
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Breast milk liquid biopsy under study for early-stage breast cancer detection
Just like taking a small blood sample from newborns in a heel-prick test to rule out metabolic diseases, milk samples could be taken from women...
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Can a Mediterranean diet reduce breast cancer recurrence?
A growing body of evidence suggests that a better dietary quality may improve survival among patients with breast cancer, but whether diet impacts...