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Showing 1 to 20 of 700 for “"Prenatal"”.
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Disinfection by-products and prenatal development
… risk estimation for studies of DBPs and prenatal development. These approaches are described below. Past epidemiological studies of DBPs and birth outcomes have used exposure measurements for study participants that are susceptible to misclassification due in part to intra-system spatial …
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Factors Associated with Prenatal Ultrasound Utilization
… dissertation was to increase the knowledge about prenatal ultrasound utilization which has not been adequately explored. The specific objectives of this dissertation were to 1) study the relationship between having single versus multiple prenatal care providers and the number of prenatal …
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Exploring the Components of Prenatal Anxiety
… of this study was to differentiate components of prenatal anxiety and fear, to facilitate operational classifications of those components. A better understanding of prenatal anxiety and fear can inform the creation of future measures and facilitate referrals for high levels of such distress. An …
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Prenatal Maternal Attachment: The Lived Experience
Prenatal maternal attachment and the practice of health promoting behaviors during pregnancy are considered universal phenomena to women. Yet, the understanding of these phenomena from the lived experiences of pregnant women has not been well researched. The purpose of this phenomenological study …
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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Cardiac Programming
… heart. In a neonatal and juvenile offspring, prenatal cocaine exposure induced abnormal apoptosis and myocyte hypertrophy in the early postnatal rats. Furthermore, prenatal cocaine exposure significantly increased heart susceptibility to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in juvenile and adult …
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Prenatal Instruction of Breast Feeding Mothers
<p>This experimental study tested the effect of prenatal instruction on the success of a group of mothers who desired to breast feed their infants. It was hypothesized that mothers receiving information on how to nurse their infants, how to prevent complications and how to cope with common problems …
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Prenatal Undernutrition, Metyrapone, and the Cerebrovasculature
<p>The link between intrauterine environmental conditions and adult cardiovascular system is well established. Independent of lifestyle factors such as poor diet and exercise habits, individuals who have been exposed to stressful conditions in utero show an increased risk of health problems such as …
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Prenatal Conditions and the Timing of Pregnancies
… is based on predictable variation in the prenatal environment. Such predictable variation can be avoided by mothers timing their pregnancies; however, this point has received little attention. In this dissertation, I study the timing of pregnancies to avoid foreseeable threats to fetal …
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Prenatal Stress, Season of Birth, and Personality
This study examined the relationship between prenatal risk factors and adult personality traits. Participants' season of birth and their mothers' reports of maternal prenatal stress (MPS) were compared with their scores on the NEO-PI-R, a personality inventory based on the five-factor model …
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Spiritual Exploration In The Prenatal Genetic Counseling Session
… al. 2007). To characterize the manner in which prenatal genetic counselors might address spiritual issues with their patients, we surveyed 283 patients receiving prenatal genetic counseling using the Brief RCope and a series of questions that examined interest in spiritual exploration. …
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Representación prenatal de la maternidad en mujeres primíparas
Esta investigación analiza las representaciones prenatales sobre la maternidad de 39 mujeres españolas primíparas, que se agruparon en función del modo en que se habían quedado embarazadas: (1) embarazos programados de manera natural, (2) embarazos por medio de tratamiento de fecundación, (3) …
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Women’s decision making process regarding prenatal diagnostic testing
… account the latest emergence of a Noninvasive Prenatal Testing, NIPT, the primary goal of this study was to explore factors that influence women’s decision to have an invasive, a non-invasive or no further testing at all. Design and sample: The Prenatal Decision Making Questionnaire (PDMQ) …
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Prenatal dexamethasone exposure: glucocrticoid programming of the brain
… studies have provided compelling evidence that prenatal environmental events are associated with significantly increased risks of developing neuropsychiatric disorders in adulthood. This phenomenon has been studied and known as ‘fetal programming of adult diseases’. According to the theory, …
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Identifying community specific barriers to prenatal care services
… this community when a woman attempts to access prenatal care. A concern for the well being of the children in the community and a belief in the importance of early intervention to enhance outcomes inspired the idea for this project.</p>
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Parietal dysfunction in children with prenatal alcohol exposure
… shown to be one of the regions most affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. Functional domains dependent on intact parietal functioning, including mathematical and visuospatial ability, have been consistently implicated in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This thesis examines, in children, using …
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Genetic Effects of Prenatal X-Irradiation in Mice
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T14:28:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801723.pdf: 2933059 bytes, checksum: b3abc30c6baccdafdce3f4f656edc548 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Playfulness and prenatal alcohol exposure : a comparative study
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Patient Perception of Negative Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Results
<p>Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) uses cell-free fetal DNA to assess for fetal aneuploidy during pregnancy. NIPT has higher detection rates and positive predictive values than previous methods; however, NIPT is not diagnostic. Studies suggest patients may underestimate the limitations of …
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