However, the relationship between early weight changes and the risk ... NEC, PVL, mortality, or length of hospitalization. Our study was conducted in a single-center NICU, which may limit ...

Up to one-quarter of preterm births might be prevented if women paid attention to three risk factors that are under their control, new research suggests. Those factors include spacing pregnancies well ...

Common risk factors are metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes and overweight or obesity. The disease has become increasingly common, including among women of reproductive age. Researchers ...

Pregnant women with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) face a more than threefold increased risk of preterm birth ... as overweight or obese and is a known risk factor ...

The researchers assessed prenatal exposures to smoking, alcohol, and stress (depression or anxiety) as well as maternal ...

With this in mind, we undertook a systematic review to summarise the risk factors for developing knee osteoarthritis. Our findings, published today in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage ...

nor that her daughter’s illness would have been prevented if Abbott had provided warnings about the higher risk of NEC in preterm babies who consume cow’s milk-based formulas. Pallmeyer wrote ...

Climate change has added at least a week of dangerously hot days for pregnant women in Texas, raising risks of stillbirths and pre-term births.