Prenatal Care

01/01/2014 - "Improved prenatal care and other public health efforts that promote full term delivery, particularly targeting high-risk families and mothers known to be carrying a fetus with CHD, may therefore be expected to improve the birth-weight of these infants and their long term health."
01/01/1991 - "Medical risk factors and the use of alcohol and drugs had significant negative effects on birth weight, while content and amount of prenatal care contributed to improved birth weight. "
07/01/2014 - "It was found that the practice of prenatal care and number of visits benefited children born weighing > 2,500 gram, compared to those with birth weight < 2,500 g (low birth weight - LBW). "
11/01/2006 - "A medical model providing enhanced prenatal care aimed at improved birth weight predominated. "
02/01/1992 - "Medicaid recipients enrolled in MCPs used prenatal care similarly to those in the FFS system and showed equal or modestly improved birth-weight distributions. "

01/01/1995 - "While the collective evidence regarding the efficacy of prenatal care to prevent low birth weight continues to be mixed, the literature indicates that the most likely known targets for prenatal interventions to prevent low birth weight rates are (1) psychosocial (aimed at smoking); (2) nutritional (aimed at low prepregnancy weight and inadequate weight gain); and (3) medical (aimed at general morbidity). "
03/01/1993 - "Other factors, such as cessation of smoking, higher maternal weight gain and the initiation of early prenatal care have been shown to improve the course and outcome of pregnancy and subsequently result in reduced infant mortality."
07/01/2014 - "Unfortunately, women enrolled in intervention trials have seen little improvement in adherence to prenatal weight gain recommendations compared to women receiving standard prenatal care. "
06/01/2010 - "Inadequate prenatal care and weight gain during pregnancy are contributing factors that could be improved through strategies of health education, family support and case management."
01/01/2016 - "This study investigated patient and provider perceptions of weight gain, physical activity, and nutrition counseling during prenatal care visits. "

11/01/2010 - "All payment groups show a trend toward significant reduction in preterm birth prevalence as adequacy of prenatal care improved from inadequate to adequate. "
05/01/2014 - "The results showed that the quantity of prenatal care is effective in reducing preterm birth and low birth weight. "
04/01/2012 - "Studies among ethnic minorities suggest that prenatal care (PNC) may be less protective against preterm birth (PTB) among foreign-born relative to US-born mothers. "
10/01/2009 - "Improved quality of prenatal care and the identification of the above factors during pregnancy may help reduce premature birth."
01/01/2015 - "The rate of preterm births and of adequate prenatal care increased significantly over the study period. "

11/01/2012 - "This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and associated risk factors in HIV-infected pregnant women followed for prenatal care in Salvador, Bahia. "
01/01/2011 - "As compared to previous studies, poor prenatal care has still the greatest correlation with active infection. "
03/01/2003 - "Most extant studies focus on differential exposures to protective and risk factors during pregnancy, such as current socioeconomic status, maternal risky behaviors, prenatal care, psychosocial stress, or perinatal infections. "
01/01/2000 - "A study to determine the incidence and prevalence of newly discovered human immunodeficiency virus infection during the prenatal care period."
05/01/1996 - "Researchers compared the results of a sentinel surveillance study on HIV-1 infection in 1292 pregnant women 15-47 years old attending prenatal care and in 454 blood donors (mean age = 28.7 years) in Bukoba, Tanzania, in 1990 with those from a cross sectional population-based study on HIV-1 infection among 553 people 15-54 years old also conducted in Bukoba during August 1987 to April 1988 to determine which sentinel populations most closely represented the HIV-1 infection rate of the general population. "

07/01/2006 - "Improvement in the quality and quantity of prenatal care should help reduce the incidence of eclampsia."
01/01/1952 - "[The efficacy of prenatal care in the prophylaxis of eclampsia and the necessity for cesarean section]."
10/01/1989 - "Determinants aside from prenatal care that are responsible for maternal death from eclampsia are analyzed in this study. "
01/01/2013 - "Inadequate prenatal care among teenagers was a risk factor of eclampsia (12.6, 2.6 to 62.6), UTI (5.8, 1.7 to 19.7) and adverse neonatal outcomes. "
04/01/2004 - "This risk increases in the presence of eclampsia, particularly in neglected cases who have not sought prenatal care."