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  1. Universal access to health care services does not automatically guarantee equity in the health system. In the post Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era, the progress towards universal access to maternal hea...

    Authors: Mohammad Habibullah Pulok, Md Nasim-Us Sabah, Jalal Uddin and Ulrika Enemark
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:200
  2. Congenital toxoplasmosis is associated with severe complications. German state health insurance covers rubella, but not toxoplasmosis, immunity screening. We analysed the effect of socioeconomic factors on the...

    Authors: A. E. Lange, J. R. Thyrian, S. Wetzka, S. Flessa, W. Hoffmann, M. Zygmunt, C. Fusch, H. N. Lode and M. Heckmann
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:197
  3. The expansion of the obesity epidemic is accompanied with an increase in bariatric procedures, in particular in women of reproductive age. The weight loss induced by the surgery is believed to reverse the nega...

    Authors: Goele Jans, Christophe Matthys, Sarah Bel, Lieveke Ameye, Matthias Lannoo, Bart Van der Schueren, Bruno Dillemans, Luc Lemmens, Jean-Pierre Saey, Yves van Nieuwenhove, Pascale Grandjean, Ben De Becker, Hilde Logghe, Marc Coppens, Kristien Roelens, Anne Loccufier…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:195
  4. External (to the fetus) stressors may act together with maternal factors as well as fetal and placental factors to increase the risk of stillbirth. Data published in 2011 indicate non-left side sleeping positi...

    Authors: Ingela Rådestad, Taina Sormunen, Lisa Rudenhed and Karin Pettersson
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:193
  5. The perinatal period, i.e. pregnancy, childbirth and early infancy, is a significant transition period where the biological and the social strongly intersect. In low and middle-income countries the disease bur...

    Authors: Shanti Raman, Rachel Nicholls, Jan Ritchie, Husna Razee and Samaneh Shafiee
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:192
  6. Detection and management of antenatal risk factors is critical for improved maternal and infant outcomes. This study describes the proportion of pregnant women who self-reported being screened for and offered ...

    Authors: Amy Waller, Jamie Bryant, Emilie Cameron, Mohamed Galal, Juliana Quay and Rob Sanson-Fisher
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:191
  7. Adiponectin is an adipocyte hormone involved in energy homeostasis and metabolism. However, its role in early infancy is poorly understood.

    Authors: Zhe-qing Zhang, Qing-gui Lu, Jie Huang, Chang-ya Jiao, Shao-ming Huang and Li-mei Mao
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:189
  8. This study aims to give insight into the opinions of maternity care professionals and other stakeholders on the integration of midwife-led care and obstetrician-led care and on the facilitating and inhibiting ...

    Authors: Hilde Perdok, Suze Jans, Corine Verhoeven, Lidewij Henneman, Therese Wiegers, Ben Willem Mol, François Schellevis and Ank de Jonge
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:188
  9. The 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) gestational weight recommendations are tailored to women’s pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI). Limited evidence exists on methods for estimating women’s pre-pregnancy BMI,...

    Authors: Barnabas K. Natamba, Sixto E. Sanchez, Bizu Gelaye and Michelle A. Williams
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:187
  10. A low physical activity (PA) level in pregnancy is associated with several adverse health outcomes. Early identification of pregnant women at risk of physical inactivity could inform strategies to promote PA, ...

    Authors: Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Ragnhild Sørum Falk, Anne Karen Jenum, Kjersti Mørkrid, Egil Wilhelm Martinsen, Yngvar Ommundsen and Sveinung Berntsen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:186
  11. Knowledge on the factors associated with severe maternal morbidity enables a better understanding of the problem and serves as a foundation for the development of an effective preventive strategy. However, var...

    Authors: Mohd Noor Norhayati, Nik Hussain Nik Hazlina, Abd. Aziz Aniza and Zaharah Sulaiman
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:185
  12. Maternal morbidity refers to pregnancy-related complications, ranging in severity from acute to chronic. In Ireland one in 210 maternities will experience a severe morbidity. Yet, how women internalize their e...

    Authors: S. Meaney, J. E. Lutomski, L. O’ Connor, K. O’ Donoghue and R. A. Greene
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:184
  13. Increasingly popular mobile health (mHealth) programs have been proposed to promote better utilization of maternal, newborn and child health services. However, women who lack access to a mobile phone are often...

    Authors: Juan Nie, Jennifer Anna Unger, Susan Thompson, Marisa Hofstee, Jing Gu and Mary Anne Mercer
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:183
  14. Regular physical activity (PA) can be beneficial to pregnant women, however, many women do not adhere to current PA guidelines during the antenatal period. Patient and public involvement is essential when desi...

    Authors: Sinéad Currie, Cindy Gray, Ashley Shepherd and Rhona J. McInnes
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:182
  15. When different health problems such as pregnancy and spinal cord injury (SCI) occur together, providing adequate care becomes even more challenging. Women with SCI may encounter a variety of specific problems ...

    Authors: Sue Bertschy, Jürgen Pannek and Thorsten Meyer
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:181
  16. Antenatal maternal mental health problems have numerous consequences for the well-being of both mother and child. This study aimed to test and construct a pertinent model of antenatal depressive symptoms withi...

    Authors: Yingtao Li, Yingchun Zeng, Wei Zhu, Ying Cui and Jie Li
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:180
  17. Leptin and insulin levels are key factors regulating fetal and neonatal energy homeostasis, development and growth. Both biomarkers are used as predictors of weight gain and obesity during infancy. There are c...

    Authors: José Guzmán-Bárcenas, José Alfredo Hernández, Joel Arias-Martínez, Héctor Baptista-González, Guillermo Ceballos-Reyes and Claudine Irles
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:179
  18. The causes of maternal death are now classified internationally according to ICD-MM. One significant change with the introduction of ICD-MM in 2012 was the reclassification of maternal suicide from the indirec...

    Authors: Marian Knight, Manisha Nair, Peter Brocklehurst, Sara Kenyon, James Neilson, Judy Shakespeare, Derek Tuffnell and Jennifer J. Kurinczuk
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:178
  19. The objective of this study is to evaluate ‘near miss’ and mortality in women with postpartum infections.

    Authors: Denis Rwabizi, Stephen Rulisa, Findlater Aidan and Maria Small
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:177

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:173

  20. Cortisol is a hormone involved in many physiological functions including fetal maturation and epigenetic programming during pregnancy. This study aimed to use hair cortisol as a biomarker of chronic inhaled co...

    Authors: Laura Smy, Kaitlyn Shaw, Ursula Amstutz, Anne Smith, Howard Berger, Bruce Carleton and Gideon Koren
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:176
  21. The knowledge and practices of health professionals have a recognized role in behaviors related to the health of their patients. During pregnancy, this influence can be even stronger because there is frequent ...

    Authors: Maíra Barreto Malta, Maria Antonieta de Barros Leite Carvalhaes, Monica Yuri Takito, Vera Lucia Pamplona Tonete, Aluísio J D Barros, Cristina Maria Garcia de Lima Parada and Maria Helena D’Aquino Benício
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:175
  22. Despite the benefits of physical activity during pregnancy, the physiological and psychological changes that occur during this unique period may put women at greater risk of being sedentary. Lifestyle and envi...

    Authors: Estelle D. Watson, Shane A. Norris, Catherine E. Draper, Rachel A. Jones, Mireille N. M. van Poppel and Lisa K. Micklesfield
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:174
  23. The incidence of type 2 diabetes in pregnancy is rising and rates of serious adverse maternal and fetal outcomes remain high. Metformin is a biguanide that is used as first-line treatment for non-pregnant pati...

    Authors: Denice S. Feig, Kellie Murphy, Elizabeth Asztalos, George Tomlinson, Johanna Sanchez, Bernard Zinman, Arne Ohlsson, Edmond A. Ryan, I. George Fantus, Anthony B. Armson, Lorraine L. Lipscombe and Jon F.R. Barrett
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:173
  24. Improving access to supervised and emergency obstetric care resources through fee reduction/exemption maternity care initiatives has been touted as one major strategy to avoiding preventable maternal deaths. E...

    Authors: Henrietta Asante-Sarpong, Adobea Yaa Owusu, Sheela Saravanan, Ernest Appiah and Mumuni Abu
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:172
  25. Implementing effective antenatal care models is a key global policy goal. However, the mechanisms of action of these multi-faceted models that would allow widespread implementation are seldom examined and poor...

    Authors: Andrew Symon, Jan Pringle, Helen Cheyne, Soo Downe, Vanora Hundley, Elaine Lee, Fiona Lynn, Alison McFadden, Jenny McNeill, Mary J Renfrew, Mary Ross-Davie, Edwin van Teijlingen, Heather Whitford and Fiona Alderdice
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:168
  26. Women with type 1 diabetes strive for optimal glycemic control before and during pregnancy to avoid adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes. For most women, optimal glycemic control is challenging to achieve ...

    Authors: Denice S. Feig, Elizabeth Asztalos, Rosa Corcoy, Alberto De Leiva, Lois Donovan, Moshe Hod, Lois Jovanovic, Erin Keely, Craig Kollman, Ruth McManus, Kellie Murphy, Katrina Ruedy, J. Johanna Sanchez, George Tomlinson and Helen R. Murphy
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:167

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:249

  27. Of the 5.54 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occurring globally each year, a significant amount of these occur in the setting of inadequate intrapartum care. The introduction of universal umbilical arte...

    Authors: Emma R. Allanson, Kate Grobicki, Robert C. Pattinson and Jan E. Dickinson
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:166
  28. As making preparations for birth and health facility delivery are behaviours linked to positive maternal and newborn health outcomes, we aimed to describe what birth preparations were made, where women deliver...

    Authors: Tara Tancred, Tanya Marchant, Claudia Hanson, Joanna Schellenberg and Fatuma Manzi
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:165
  29. Arterial dissection is a rare complication of pregnancy and puerperium. There have been reports of aortic, coronary and cervical artery dissection in association with preeclampsia, however, vertebral artery di...

    Authors: Renuka Shanmugalingam, Nina Reza Pour, Siang Chye Chuah, Thi Mong Vo, Roy Beran, Annemarie Hennessy and Angela Makris
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:164
  30. Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) affects 10–20 % of monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA) births and accounts for 50 % of fetal loss in MCDA pregnancies. This exploratory qualitative study identified shared ...

    Authors: Rebecca Fischbein, James Meeker, Julia R. Saling, Michelle Chyatte and Lauren Nicholas
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:163
  31. The rate of neonatal overweight remains generally high in type 1 diabetes (T1DM). Since glycemic control has improved over time other contributors need to be identified. Our aim is to evaluate the risk factors...

    Authors: Astrid Morrens, Johan Verhaeghe, Christine Vanhole, Roland Devlieger, Chantal Mathieu and Katrien Benhalima
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:162
  32. Current guidelines recommend that pregnant women without contraindications should engage in 30 min or more of moderate intensity exercise on most days of the week, however, many women fail to achieve this goal...

    Authors: Ming Jing Ong, Karen E. Wallman, Paul A. Fournier, John P. Newnham and Kym J. Guelfi
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:161
  33. Low birth weight (LBW) is one of the major factors affecting child morbidity and mortality worldwide. It also results in substantial costs to the health sector and imposes a significant burden on the society a...

    Authors: Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, Vida Kukula, Gabriel Odonkor, Rosemond Akepene Ekey, Alexander Adjei, Solomon Narh-Bana, David Etsey Akpakli and Margaret Gyapong
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:160
  34. In Australia, significant disparity persists in stillbirth rates between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) and non-Indigenous women. Diabetes, hypertension, antepartum haemorrhage a...

    Authors: Ibinabo Ibiebele, Michael Coory, Gordon C. S. Smith, Frances M Boyle, Susan Vlack, Philippa Middleton, Yvette Roe and Vicki Flenady
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:159
  35. Until recently, WHO recommended daily iron supplementation for all pregnant women (60 mg/d iron combined with 400ug/d folic acid) where anaemia rates exceeded 40 %. Recent studies indicate that this may pose a...

    Authors: Amat Bah, Rita Wegmuller, Carla Cerami, Lindsay Kendall, Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Sophie E. Moore and Andrew M. Prentice
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:157
  36. Pregnant women form one of the high risk groups facing hypovitaminosis D. Low level of vitamin D will affect directly or indirectly both mother and fetus. Screening vitamin D in the first trimester of pregnanc...

    Authors: Noriklil Bukhary Ismail Bukhary, Zaleha Md Isa, Khadijah Shamsuddin, Khor Geok Lin, Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy, Haslinda Hassan and Noor Sharifatul Hana Yeop
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:156
  37. Authors: Junichi Hasegawa, Akihiko Sekizawa, Tomoaki Ikeda, Mitsuhiko Koresawa, Isamu Ishiwata, Masakiyo Kawabata and Katsuyuki Kinoshita
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:155

    The original article was published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2015 15:4

  38. Preterm birth is a major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. As preventive strategies are largely ineffective, threatened preterm labor is a frequent problem that affects approximately 10 % of pregnanci...

    Authors: Frederik J. R. Hermans, Ewoud Schuit, Brent C. Opmeer, Martijn A. Oudijk, Mireille Bekker, Mallory Woiski, Caroline J. Bax, Marieke Sueters, Hubertina C. J. Scheepers, Maureen T. M. Franssen, Eva Pajkrt, Ben Willem J. Mol and Marjolein Kok
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:154
  39. Exposure to arsenic in drinking water has been associated with various complications of pregnancy including fetal loss, low birth weight, anemia, gestational diabetes and spontaneous abortion. However, to date...

    Authors: Ada Sandoval-Carrillo, Edna M. Méndez-Hernández, Elizabeth I. Antuna-Salcido, Sergio M. Salas-Pacheco, Fernando Vázquez-Alaniz, Alfredo Téllez-Valencia, Marisela Aguilar-Durán, Marcelo Barraza-Salas, Francisco X. Castellanos-Juárez, Osmel La Llave-León and José M. Salas-Pacheco
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:153
  40. Obstructed labour remains a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality whose complications can be reduced with improved quality of obstetric care. The objective was to assess whether criteria-based audit ...

    Authors: Herbert Kayiga, Judith Ajeani, Paul Kiondo and Dan K. Kaye
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:152
  41. Repeat HIV testing in late pregnancy has the potential to decrease rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by identifying mothers who seroconvert after having tested negative for HIV in early pregnancy. D...

    Authors: Anna Joy Rogers, Elly Weke, Zachary Kwena, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Patrick Oyaro, Craig R. Cohen and Janet M. Turan
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:151
  42. We aimed to define the frequency and predictors of successful external cephalic version in a nationally-representative cohort of women with breech presentations and to compare maternal outcomes associated with...

    Authors: Carolyn F. Weiniger, Deirdre J. Lyell, Lawrence C. Tsen, Alexander J. Butwick, BatZion Shachar, William M. Callaghan, Andreea A. Creanga and Brian T. Bateman
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:150
  43. Delivery at health institutions under the care of trained health-care providers and utilization of postnatal cares services plays vital roles in promoting child survival and reducing the risk of maternal morta...

    Authors: Birhanu Darega, Nagasa Dida, Fikru Tafese and Shimeles Ololo
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:149
  44. In 2013, the Government of India launched the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in order to better address the health needs of urban populations, including the nearly 100 million living in slums. Maternal a...

    Authors: May Sudhinaraset, Naomi Beyeler, Sandhya Barge and Nadia Diamond-Smith
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:148
  45. Pregnancy and childbirth are socio-cultural events that carry varying meanings across different societies and cultures. These are often translated into social expectations of what a particular society expects ...

    Authors: Sheetal Sharma, Edwin van Teijlingen, Vanora Hundley, Catherine Angell and Padam Simkhada
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:147

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