Birth weight pre-eclampsia 'link'
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Women who were underweight when they were born have an increased risk of severe pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, a large Swedish study suggests.
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A new report says gestational diabetes is strongly linked to childhood obesity  -  but there's a lot you can do to treat the condition
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NEW YORK  - Moms-to-be who have low vitamin D levels during pregnancy appear to be at increased risk for suffering from pre-eclampsia, according to a study.
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NEW YORK  - More than three-quarters of  children who were born before the 26th week of pregnancy are  affected by cognitive and neurologic impairments by the time  they reach school age, British researchers report.
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Scientists may have made a breakthrough in finding a test and cure for pregnancy disorder pre-eclampsia.
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NEW YORK  - Parents' lifestyle choices may  help determine their children's blood pressure, even before  their kids are born, a new study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - The results of a Swedish study  confirm that fetal outcome may be compromised in women with a  past or active eating disorder. "These women should therefore  be recognized as high-risk patients during pregnancy," Dr.  Angelica Linden Hirschberg from Karolinska University Hospital  in Stockholm told Reuters Health.
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Investigators have found that  children, whose mothers had a larger body mass index (BMI)  prior to pregnancy or a large mid-upper arm circumference in  late pregnancy, also had higher levels of body fat at the age  of 9 years than other children of the same age. The amount of  weight mothers put on during pregnancy, however, had no effect  on their child&#39;s body fat.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Early growth patterns in a girl's life, going back as far as her birth weight, influence her later risk of developing breast cancer.
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A report released last month by the Centers for Disease Control makes for some pretty heavy reading -literally. The report, &quot;Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960-2002,&quot; found that
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Obese pregnant women can avoid  weight gain or even lose some weight without harming their  babies, a small study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Women who are underweight before they become pregnant are at heightened risk for suffering a miscarriage in the first trimester, a UK study shows, but taking vitamin supplements and eating fresh fruit and vegetables can reduce the risk.
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Doctors can cut the risk of cerebral palsy in half for very premature babies by giving their mothers magnesium sulfate just before they give birth, new research shows.
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Reducing caffeine consumption during pregnancy from three cups of coffee a day to one has no effect on the babyâs birth weight, researchers report.
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BOSTON -- Newborns face little risk of birth defects from antidepressants taken by many women early in pregnancy, say the reassuring findings of the two biggest studies of this controversial link.
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Women with moderate to severe symptoms of asthma during pregnancy are more likely to develop preeclampsia than women with no asthma symptoms, the results of a new study show.
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Postnatal (after birth) growth  problems, especially when associated with prenatal (before  birth) growth problems, are linked to lower physical size,  cognitive scores, and academic achievement at age 8, according  to results of a study.