Showing posts with label Pregnancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pregnancy. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
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Friday, 1 May 2015
Artificial Pancreas During Pregnancy - Breakthrough
The new mother-of-two has Type 1 diabetes and wore the piece of kit throughout her pregnancy to produce insulin and prevent symptoms of the disease.
Three other mothers have previously given birth in Cambridge after using the device but by caesarean section.
An artificial pancreas device system (APDS) is a small portable piece of equipment designed to carry out the function of a healthy pancreas.
It helps to control blood glucose levels using digital communication technology to automate insulin delivery.
An APDS is worn on the body during pregnancy and has a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a digital controller and an insulin pump.
Dr Helen Murphy, principal investigator of the study Ms Finlayson-Wilkins took part in, said Euan's arrival was an exciting step in the treatment of diabetes in pregnancy.
"Women who have diabetes in pregnancy face higher rates of birth defects, over-sized babies, pre-term delivery and stillbirth than other pregnant women," she said.
"Treating diabetes in pregnancy can be particularly challenging because hormone levels are constantly changing and blood sugars can be difficult to predict."
The results of the ongoing National Institute for Health Research's Closed Loop in Pregnancy study are due to be published later this year.
Its findings could mean the technology benefits more pregnant women with diabetes.
Friday, 10 April 2015
Study on Alcohol and Pregnancy
Professor Peter Hepper
of Queen's University in Belfast examined the effects of low-level alcohol
exposure during pregnancy by using 18-week scans on women who drank an average
of a glass of wine a week.
He found that during the
scans, the foetuses stopped breathing and moving, sometimes for up to two
hours.
They could suddenly jump
and turn themselves over. These jolts suggested that their brains were not
developing properly.
His advice is that the
"only safe level of alcohol is zero" for pregnant women. This ties in
with the advice of the Department of Health.
He said the foetus
should be continually active.
It is already accepted
that drinking heavily throughout pregnancy can cause a baby to develop a serious
condition called foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
Children with FAS have
restricted growth, facial abnormalities and learning and behavioural disorders.
Drinking alcohol is
potentially most harmful for a foetus in the first three months of pregnancy,
when it is linked to miscarriage and to birth abnormalities.
Irish women with higher levels of income and education are more likely to drink alcohol weekly during their pregnancy, a Growing Up in Ireland study found. "Some groups of women drink lower levels continuously while other women binge drink at weekends and don't drink during the week," he said.
"Binge drinking is potentially more harmful because there is more exposure to alcohol but I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that if you drink lower amounts of alcohol more regularly, it's any less harmful or somehow more safe."
Irish women with higher levels of income and education are more likely to drink alcohol weekly during their pregnancy, a Growing Up in Ireland study found. "Some groups of women drink lower levels continuously while other women binge drink at weekends and don't drink during the week," he said.
"Binge drinking is potentially more harmful because there is more exposure to alcohol but I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that if you drink lower amounts of alcohol more regularly, it's any less harmful or somehow more safe."
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Friday, 20 March 2015
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Thursday, 13 March 2014
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Pregnancy study leads to fewer high birth weight babies
The world's biggest study offering healthy eating and exercise advice to pregnant women who are overweight or obese has shown a significant reduction in the number of babies born over 4kg in weight.
The LIMIT Study, led by researchers from the University of Adelaide's Robinson Institute and the Women's and Children's Hospital, involved more than 2200 pregnant women from 2008-2011.
In the first major results from the LIMIT Study, published this week in the British Medical Journal, the researchers say that providing advice and assistance to adopt a healthy diet and regular exercise during pregnancy has led to an 18% reduction in the chance of a baby being born over 4kg."This is a very important finding," says the lead author of the study, Professor Jodie Dodd from the University's Robinson Institute and the Women's and Children's Hospital.
Professor Dodd says overweight and obesity during pregnancy are common, affecting approximately 50% of women, and until now there has been little evidence about the benefit of dietary and lifestyle interventions on clinical outcomes in this group of women.
About half of the women who took part in the study were provided with dietary and lifestyle advice promoting healthy eating and exercise, consistent with current Australian recommendations. The remaining women continued to receive routine antenatal care.
The full paper can be found at the British Medical Journal website.
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Monday, 24 February 2014
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Miscarriage risk 'reduced by lifestyle changes'
More than a quarter of first-time miscarriages could be prevented by making a combination of lifestyle changes, research in Denmark suggests.
Researchers said lifting more than 20kg (44lbs) each day during pregnancy and being obese or underweight increased the risk of miscarriage. Women beyond their early 30s, who drank alcohol and worked night shifts during pregnancy were also more likely to miscarry, they said. The study analysed 91,427 women.
In the UK, more than one in seven pregnancies ends in miscarriage.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, which carried out the work, said only by reducing all of the risk factors could they be prevented. The paper was published in the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, senior researcher at the University of Copenhagen, said: "The main message from the paper is that miscarriages are a subject for prevention."
Ms Nybo Andersen said the paper was significant as it showed the relative importance of different lifestyle factors in causing miscarriage, rather than more specific factors, such as certain pharmaceutical drugs.
As the findings were from the health perspective of a population, they could apply to lots of people - from individual couples to people in charge of maternity policies, work place regulations and supporting students who get pregnant, she said.
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