Overweight Women May Have Longer Labor
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Women who are overweight or obese before becoming pregnant generally spend a longer time in labor than thinner women do, a new study suggests.
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Women in labor may not be given an epidural at first, for fear that it will slow down the process of cervical dilation, but that concern seems to be unfounded.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women who regularly  work the night shift may have an increased risk of a  miscarriage late in pregnancy or a stillbirth, a new study  suggests.
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Women evolved curvier spines than men to stop them wobbling under the weight of pregnancy, say researchers.
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Being obese more than doubles the risk of a type of leukemia -- acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) -- in older women, according to a new report. The risk is only slightly diminished in women who are overweight.
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Overweight and obese older women have an increased risk of leukemia, says a University of Minnesota study. It found that older women who are overweight or obese could be more than twice as likely as normal
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Obese couples have a more difficult  time conceiving a baby than couples of normal weight, according  to a study published on Tuesday identifying another consequence  of putting on too much weight.
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Overweight and obese women are significantly more likely to become pregnant while on the contraceptive pill than other women, new research shows.
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Researchers compared the weight and body-mass index (BMI) of 248 women who became pregnant while on the Pill, and compared them to a group of 533 women of the same age who were taking oral contraceptives but who were not pregnant.
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Children born to mothers who  developed diabetes during pregnancy are more likely to be  overweight or obese than their peers, according to a new study.
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Dec. 29, 2004 -- For overweight women, birth control pills don&#39;t offer as reliable protection against pregnancy as one might think, new research shows.
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Women are more likely to develop urinary incontinence if their mothers or older sisters also have this problem. Urinary incontinence in women is known to be linked to factors such as age, obesity and childbirth injury.
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A new study carried out by researchers from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centre has revealed that women living in households with four or more people were significantly more likely to be obese than those who lived by themselves.
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Underweight women are 72% more likely to miscarry in the first three months of pregnancy, a study suggests.
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Overweight women are known to  have a greater chance of giving birth to a larger-than-normal  baby. But new research suggests that these odds stay higher  even when a woman loses weight before pregnancy.
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Women on the Pill who are overweight are up to 70 per cent more likely to become pregnant than those who are slim, scientists have discovered.
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U.S. women ages 45 to 54 face more than double the risk of stroke than men the same age, researchers said on Wednesday, noting that obesity in these women may be partly to blame.