Smoking Plus Asthma in Pregnancy May Make for ‘Dangerous Situation’
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Sign Up for MedicineNet Newsletters! TUESDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women who have asthma and smoke are at increased risk for complications that can affect them and their unborn children, a new study warns. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia analyzed data gathered from more than 170,000 women over 10 years in what is described as the first study of its kind.
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The Geography Of Unintended Pregnancy (INFOGRAPHIC)
each year are unplanned, according to a new state-level analysis by the Guttmacher Institute. The unintended pregnancy rate is a standout in the industrialized world , and has remained nearly flat since the 1980s despite advances in birth control technology and availability. Women with incomes at or below the federal poverty line are five times more likely than those at the highest income levels to become pregnant by accident and unintended pregnancies have become increasingly clustered among the poor in recent years. Most of the births resulting from unplanned pregnancies are publicly funded , and they aren’t cheap . As family planning budgets are slashed across the nation, unintended pregnancy remains the main reason for abortion, a procedure three in 10 American women have by age 45 . Infographic by Jan Diehm for The Huffington Post.
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Study Sees No Link Between Drinking During Early Pregnancy and Birth Woes
One quarter said they had engaged in low alcohol consumption, meaning three to seven units a week, while just over 10 percent said they had engaged in moderate consumption — eight to 14 units a week. Five percent reported drinking heavily — more than 14 units a week. At the extreme end, more than one-third of the women said they had consumed six or more units of alcohol in one session in the three months before becoming pregnant — a practice defined as binge drinking. And nearly a quarter of those women said they’d binged during the first 15 weeks of their pregnancy. After comparing the mothers’ drinking histories with the status of their babies at birth, the study authors concluded that drinking both pre-pregnancy and during the first 15 weeks of pregnancy did not seem to increase the risk that a baby would be born prematurely, low in birth weight or small for gestational age — regardless of the amount of alcohol consumed.
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