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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Third trimester"”.
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Universal ultrasound screening in the third trimester
… breech. An introduction of a policy of third trimester ultrasound for fetal presentation would prevent about 5000 emergency Caesarean sections and 8 perinatal deaths annually in the UK. The policy would be cost-effective at a cost of £19.80 per scan. Conclusion There is a strong clinical …
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Third Trimester Plasma Metabolites Associated with Gestational Diabetes: An Ancillary Analysis of the Healthy Beginnings Trial
… its etiology. Prior research by our lab in first trimester samples of GDM patients indicated altered fatty acid utilization and purine degradation products.</p> <p><strong>Objective: </strong>Metabolomics analysis was conducted on third trimester (28 -35 weeks) plasma samples to observe …
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Adiponectin deficiency leads to hepatic steatosis and contributes to the development of gestational diabetes mellitus
… mice to WT (C57/B6) controls in the third trimester of pregnancy and evaluated measures of glucose and insulin tolerance when animals were consuming LF or HFS diets in pregnancy. We performed a histological and biochemical evaluation of hepatic steatosis in pregnancy. To investigate …
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Fetal responsiveness to auditory and tactile stimulation
… Responses were examined for the second- and third-trimester fetuses (second-trimester ≤ 27 gestational weeks (wGA), third- trimester >27 wGA), in both experiments, respectively.<br/><br/>Experiment 1 of this thesis examined fetal behavioural responses to the mother’s recorded and live voice, …
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Ultrasound prediction of large fetuses. Epidemiological and clinical investigations
… ultrasound examination for fetal growth in the third trimester of pregnancy, and to examine whether the detection rate could be further improved by including maternal pre-pregnancy and pregnancy-related variables to the estimated fetal weight (FW) by developing a prediction formula for risk …
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Investigation and Modelling of Fetal Sheep Maturation
… the fetal sheep ECoG (electrocorticogram) in its third-trimester of gestation (95-140 days of gestation), investigate three continuum models for electrical behaviour of the cortex, and tune the parameters in one of these models to generate the discontinuous EEG waves in the immature cortex. Visual …
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Weight Concerns, Body Image, and Smoking Cessation in Pregnant Women in Rural Appalachia
… and body image concerns and smoking status at third trimester. Participants included 172 pregnant women who smoke. Women were recruited via Ob/GYN and Family Practice offices throughout East Tennessee and participating in the research arm of the Tennessee Intervention for Pregnant Smokers. …
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Association Between Fluoride Exposure and Immune System Biomarkers in Pregnancy
… fluoride concentrations were measured in each trimester, dilution-adjusted, and averaged across pregnancy. Drinking water fluoride concentrations (WFC) were collected from water treatment plants. Maternal immune system biomarkers included interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, tumor necrosis factor-alpha …
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Factors affecting Compliance in the uptake of Zidovudine(AZT) and Nevirapine (NVP) By HIV Seropositive Expectant women delivering out side a health facility in Lusaka
… Zidovudine given to expectant mothers in their third trimester of pregnancy and Nevirapine given intrapartum to mother when labor begins and postpartum to baby reduce the chance of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV. However, some studies have revealed that many HIV seropositive expectant women …
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Factors affecting Compliance in the uptake of Zidovudine(AZT) and Nevirapine (NVP) By HIV Seropositive Expectant women delivering out side a health facility in Lusaka
… Zidovudine given to expectant mothers in their third trimester of pregnancy and Nevirapine given intrapartum to mother when labor begins and postpartum to baby reduce the chance of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV. However, some studies have revealed that many HIV seropositive expectant women …
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Ανοσοϊστοχημική μελέτη του πλακούντα με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στα κύτταρα Hofbauer
… antigens. 2. Comparative study between the three trimester of gestation is reported for the first time. 3. The study for the antigens CALLA, Macrophages-Dako, K-67, Leu-M5, IL-2R, T4, Leu-3a+3b and S-100 in placenta is also reported for the first time. 4. The syncytiotrophoblast showed positive …
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Prenatal stress, the placenta and maternal microbial transmission; implications for health and disease
… saliva and fecal samples in the second and/or third trimester of pregnancy. Vaginal swabs, placenta samples and newborn hair were acquired at birth and infant fecal samples were subsequently collected across the first 5 months of life. We first used this cohort to further examine and validate …
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The impact of maternal obesity on vascular and metabolic function throughout pregnancy.
… subject was examined in the first, Second and third trimester of pregnancy as well as twelve weeks post partum. Using non invasive techniques microvasular function was measured at each visit. Fasting bloods were taken. This assessment allowed us to observe microvascular function, inflammatory …
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Trauma, Depression, Early Attachment, and Neonatal Health Outcomes among African American Mothers and their Infants
… American women (N = 70), recruited during their third trimester of pregnancy, and their newborns. Data collection took place over two time periods: during the third trimester of pregnancy and at one month postpartum. Prenatal data collected include information on a range of risk and protective …
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The Effect of Maternal Traumatic Life Events and Social Support on Maternal-Child Interaction at Child Age 3 Years
… Researchers recruited 1503 women in their second trimester of pregnancy. Data were collected at the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, at the child's birth, and from mother-child dyads at different points through child age three years. Nine hundred and eighty-six mother-child dyads were included in this …
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Attitudinal and demographic factors influencing fathers' involvement in childbirth
… distributed to 44 men whose wives were in their third trimester of pregnancy. Multivariate and univariate analyses were performed. The univariate analysis was deemed the more appropriate statistic based on unequal sample sizes of participants and non-participants. Differences between the two …
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Assessing the cost-effectiveness of national Kenyan repeat maternal HIV testing guidelines
… new infant HIV infections. Repeat testing in the third trimester and in the postpartum period, when risk of HIV acquisition is high, can help detect and treat incident maternal infections and reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission. Current data on the timing, frequency, and utility of repeat …
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The Effects of Pregnancy on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
… in occurrence of exacerbation among the three trimesters of pregnancy and the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum periods was also studied.</p> <p>This nonexperimental descriptive case study used medical records of six pregnant (the study group) and six nonpregnant (the control group) …
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