BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

• Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Gestational Diabetes: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies Smoking has been associated with glucose intolerance during pregnancy in some but not all studies. What did this systematic review of all epidemiological evidence find?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, December 2008
• Women's Attitude Towards Prenatal Screening for Red Blood Cell Antibodies, Other Than RhD The benefits and burden of prenatal screening for non-RhesusD (RhD) antibodies have yet to be elucidated. How do pregnant women feel about non-RhD screening?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, November 2008
• Obstetric Risk Indicators for Labour Dystocia in Nulliparous Women: A Multi-centre Cohort Study Incidence of dystocia is not well monitored and no consensus exists on length of normal labor or diagnostic criteria for dystocia. What are the obstetric and clinical risk indicators for dystocia?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, October 2008
• Maternal Risk Factors for Abnormal Placental Growth: The National Collaborative Perinatal Project Which maternal characteristics influence placental weight, placental thickness, and chorionic plate area? What is the magnitude of association of maternal factors with placental growth restriction?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2008
• A Population-based Study of Race-specific Risk for Placental Abruption Is race, after adjusting for other factors, related to risk of placental abruption at specific gestational ages? How does placental abruption affect risk of preterm birth in Black vs. White mothers?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2008
• Serum Screening With Down's Syndrome Markers to Predict Pre-Eclampsia and Small for Gestational Age: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis How accurately do serum biochemical markers used in first and second trimester Down syndrome serum screening predict pre-eclampsia and/or small for gestational age? Five serum analytes are evaluated.
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, August 2008
• Fetal Size in the Second Trimester is Associated With the Duration of Pregnancy, Small Fetuses Having Longer Pregnancies In low-risk pregnancies, does fetal growth (second trimester fetal size) determine pregnancy duration? Do slower growing fetuses cause longer pregnancies? How does ultrasound dating compare to LMP?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, July 2008
• The Design, Implementation and Acceptability of an Integrated Intervention to Address Multiple Behavioral and Psychosocial Risk Factors Among Pregnant African American Women Infant mortality rates are disproportionately high for African-Americans. How might a behavioral counseling intervention integrating multiple targeted risks fare for pregnant African American women?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, June 2008