Volume 13 Supplement 1
Preterm Birth - Interdisciplinary research from the Preterm Birth and Healthy Outcomes Team (PreHOT)
Research
Edited by Andrew W Lyon, BF Mitchell and Olivia McCreary
This publication, and the research projects it features, were funded by the Preterm Birth and Healthy Outcomes Team Interdisciplinary Team Grant (#200700595) from Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions, formerly the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research."
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Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2013 13(Suppl 1):S1
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The All Our Babies pregnancy cohort: design, methods, and participant characteristics
The prospective cohort study design is ideal for examining diseases of public health importance, as its inherent temporal nature renders it advantageous for studying early life influences on health outcomes an...
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Validation of Canadian mothers’ recall of events in labour and delivery with electronic health records
Maternal report of events that occur during labour and delivery are used extensively in epidemiological research; however, the validity of these data are rarely confirmed. This study aimed to validate maternal...
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Genome-wide association studies in preterm birth: implications for the practicing obstetrician-gynaecologist
Preterm birth has the highest mortality and morbidity of all pregnancy complications. The burden of preterm birth on public health worldwide is enormous, yet there are few effective means to prevent a preterm ...
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Comparing CenteringPregnancy® to standard prenatal care plus prenatal education
There is significant evidence to support the importance of prenatal care in preventing adverse outcomes such as preterm birth and low infant birth weight. Previous studies have indicated that the benefits of p...
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A qualitative study of the experience of CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care for physicians
This study sought to understand the central meaning of the experience of group prenatal care for physicians who were involved in providing CenteringPregnancy through a maternity clinic in Calgary, Canada.
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Development and validation of primary human myometrial cell culture models to study pregnancy and labour
The development of the in vitro cell culture model has greatly facilitated the ability to study gene expression and regulation within human tissues. Within the human uterus, the upper (fundal) segment and the low...
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Maternal circulating leukocytes display early chemotactic responsiveness during late gestation
Parturition has been widely described as an immunological response; however, it is unknown how this is triggered. We hypothesized that an early event in parturition is an increased responsiveness of peripheral...
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Transgenerational programming of maternal behaviour by prenatal stress
Peripartum events hold the potential to have dramatic effects in the programming of physiology and behaviour of offspring and possibly subsequent generations. Here we have characterized transgenerational chang...
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Key components of early intervention programs for preterm infants and their parents: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Preterm infants are at greater risk for neurodevelopmental disabilities than full term infants. Interventions supporting parents to improve the quality of the infant’s environment should improve developmental ...
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Depressive symptoms among immigrant and Canadian born mothers of preterm infants at neonatal intensive care discharge: a cross sectional study
Mothers of preterm infants are considered at higher risk for depressive symptoms, higher than for mothers of healthy term infants. Predictors of depressive symptoms in mothers of preterm infants are not yet we...
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A pilot cohort analytic study of Family Integrated Care in a Canadian neonatal intensive care unit
We have developed a Family Integrated Care (FIC) model for use in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where parents provide most of the care for their infant, while nurses teach and counsel parents. The obje...
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Unexpected: an interpretive description of parental traumas’ associated with preterm birth
Preterm birth (PTB) places a considerable emotional, psychological, and financial burden on parents, families, health care resources, and society as a whole. Efforts to estimate these costs have typically cons...
Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2013 13(Suppl 1):S13
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