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  1. World Health Organization recommends a standard daily oral dose of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements throughout pregnancy to begin as early as possible. The aim of the present study was to determine the pr...

    Authors: Yasir Bin Nisar, Michael J Dibley and Ali Mohammad Mir
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:305
  2. The maternal mortality ratio in India has been declining over the past decade, but remains unacceptably high at 212 per 100,000 live births. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) and pre- eclampsia/eclampsia contribute...

    Authors: Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Prem Mony, Ramesh BM, Annamma Thomas, Ajay Gaikwad, Mohan HL, James F Blanchard, Stephen Moses and Lisa Avery
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:304
  3. Despite extensive research, a direct correlation between low to moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders has been elusive. Conflicting results are attributed to a lack of a...

    Authors: Evelyne Muggli, Colleen O’Leary, Della Forster, Peter Anderson, Sharon Lewis, Cate Nagle, Jeffrey M Craig, Susan Donath, Elizabeth Elliott and Jane Halliday
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:302
  4. Seaweed is a popular traditional food in Japan and is a rich source of bioactive metabolites. The neuroprotective properties of seaweed have attracted attention; to date, however, there has been no epidemiolog...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka, Hitomi Okubo, Satoshi Sasaki and Masashi Arakawa
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:301
  5. The continuous rise in caesarean rates across most European countries raises multiple concerns. One factor in this development might be the type of care women receive during childbirth. ‘Supportive care during...

    Authors: Nina Knape, Herbert Mayer, Wilfried Schnepp and Friederike zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:300
  6. An estimated 147,741 maternal deaths occurred in 2010 in 45 of the 47 countries in the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective of this study was to estimate the indirect cost of ma...

    Authors: Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Germano Mwige Mwabu, Juliet Nabyonga Orem and Rosenabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:299
  7. Empirical evidence regarding maternal quality and safety outcomes across heterogeneous Asian and Pacific Islanders subgroups in the United States is limited, despite the importance of this topic to health disp...

    Authors: Tetine Sentell, Ann Chang, Yongjun Cheng and Jill Miyamura
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:298
  8. Increasing women’s status and male involvement are important strategies in reducing preventable maternal morbidity and mortality. While efforts to both empower women and engage men in maternal health care-seek...

    Authors: Larissa Jennings, Muzi Na, Megan Cherewick, Michelle Hindin, Britta Mullany and Saifuddin Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:297
  9. Gestational diabetes (GDM) has been associated with an elevated risk of type 2 diabetes in women after the pregnancy. Recognition of the factors differentiating the women at highest risk of progression to over...

    Authors: Hanna Huopio, Heidi Hakkarainen, Mirja Pääkkönen, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Raimo Voutilainen, Seppo Heinonen and Henna Cederberg
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:296
  10. Improving maternal and reproductive health still remains a major challenge in most low-income countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The growing inequality in access to maternal health interventions is an...

    Authors: Benedict O Asamoah, Anette Agardh, Karen Odberg Pettersson and Per-Olof Östergren
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:295
  11. Intimate partner violence (IPV) before and during pregnancy is associated with a broad range of adverse health outcomes. Describing the extent and the evolution of IPV is a crucial step in developing intervent...

    Authors: An-Sofie Van Parys, Ellen Deschepper, Kristien Michielsen, Marleen Temmerman and Hans Verstraelen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:294
  12. Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy is a serious matter which threatens maternal and fetal health. The aim of this study was to develop a grounded theoretical model of women’s experience of IPV du...

    Authors: Hafrún Finnbogadóttir, Anna-Karin Dykes and Christine Wann-Hansson
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:293
  13. Women with bilateral abnormal uterine artery Doppler velocimetry (UtADV) are at increased risk for an adverse pregnancy outcome. This study aimed to determine if additional assessment of midtrimester angiogeni...

    Authors: Johannes Stubert, Stefanie Ullmann, Michael Bolz, Thomas Külz, Max Dieterich, Dagmar-Ulrike Richter and Toralf Reimer
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:292
  14. Despite the known effects of neuraxial blockade on major vessel function and the rapid decrease in uterine vascular impedance, it is unclear how the blockade affects the utero-placental circulation in the near...

    Authors: Luís Guedes-Martins, Helena Graça, Joaquim P Saraiva, Luísa Guedes, Rita Gaio, Ana S Cerdeira, Filipe Macedo and Henrique Almeida
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:291
  15. Early initiation of antenatal care (ANC) can reduce common maternal complications and maternal and perinatal mortality. Though Rwanda demonstrated a remarkable decline in maternal mortality and 98% of Rwandan ...

    Authors: Anatole Manzi, Fabien Munyaneza, Francisca Mujawase, Leonidas Banamwana, Felix Sayinzoga, Dana R Thomson, Joseph Ntaganira and Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:290
  16. Data pertaining to risk factors associated with stillbirths and very low Apgar scores is very sparse. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of, and examine the socio-demographic and obstetric fa...

    Authors: Edward Tieru Dassah, Alexander Tawiah Odoi and Baafuor Kofi Opoku
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:289
  17. Maternal perception of decreased fetal movements is a specific indicator of fetal compromise, notably in the context of poor fetal growth. There is currently no agreed numerical definition of decreased fetal m...

    Authors: Billie Bradford and Robyn Maude
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:288
  18. Antenatal care service which is among strategies to maintain maternal and fetal wellbeing is strongly recommended to be initiated early during pregnancy. To developing world where there is uncommon practice of...

    Authors: Temesgen Worku Gudayu, Solomon Meseret Woldeyohannes and Abdella Amano Abdo
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:287
  19. Maternal counting of fetal movement is a popular and valuable screening tool of fetal wellbeing, however it is still not known what percentage of healthy pregnant women who gave birth to healthy term newborns ...

    Authors: Mahdi Sheikh, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh and Mamak Shariat
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:286
  20. Cesarean section (CS) rate has increased rapidly over the past two decades in China mainly driven by non-medical factors. This study was to compare recalled preferences for CS among first-time mothers in early...

    Authors: Wei Deng, Reija Klemetti, Qian Long, Zhuochun Wu, Chenggang Duan, Wei-Hong Zhang, Carine Ronsmans, Yu Zhang and Elina Hemminki
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:285
  21. Adequate antenatal care is important to both the health of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Given South Africa’s high rate of cellphone penetration, mobile health interventions have been touted as a poten...

    Authors: Yan Kwan Lau, Tali Cassidy, Damian Hacking, Kirsty Brittain, Hanne Jensen Haricharan and Marion Heap
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:284
  22. Oxidative stress plays a role in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia. Supplementing women with antioxidants during pregnancy may reduce oxidative stress and thereby prevent or delay the onset pre-eclampsia. The ...

    Authors: Paul Kiondo, Gakenia Wamuyu-Maina, Julius Wandabwa, Gabriel S Bimenya, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye and Pius Okong
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:283
  23. Birth preparedness and complication readiness is the process of planning for normal birth and anticipating the actions needed in case of an emergency. It is also a strategy to promote the timely use of skilled...

    Authors: Desalegn Markos and Daniel Bogale
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:282
  24. The partograph is a graphic display of the progress of labour, recommended by the World Health Organization, but often underused in practice in low- and middle-income countries. We were interested in going bey...

    Authors: Elizabeth Ollerhead and David Osrin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:281
  25. Audits provide a rational framework for quality improvement by systematically assessing clinical practices against accepted standards with the aim to develop recommendations and interventions that target modif...

    Authors: Hasan S Merali, Stuart Lipsitz, Nathanael Hevelone, Atul A Gawande, Angela Lashoher, Priya Agrawal and Jonathan Spector
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:280
  26. Availability of skilled care at birth remains a major problem in most developing countries. In an effort to increase access to skilled birth attendance, the Kenyan government implemented the community midwifer...

    Authors: Margaret Titty Mannah, Charlotte Warren, Shiphrah Kuria and Adetoro A Adegoke
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:279
  27. Pre-eclampsia remains a dominant cause of maternal and fetal mortality in developed countries. In a previous prospective study we identified a fall in the VEGF-A isoform VEGF-A165b in the plasma of patients in th...

    Authors: Victoria L Bills, Maryam Hamdollah-Zadeh, Peter W Soothill, Steven J Harper and David O Bates
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:278
  28. Assessment of quality of life after childbirth is an important health-outcome measurement for new mothers and is of special interest in midwifery. The Mother-Generated Index (MGI) is a validated instrument to ...

    Authors: Susanne Grylka-Baeschlin, Edwin van Teijlingen and Mechthild M Gross
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:277
  29. Trials of interventions for PPH prevention and treatment rely on different measurement methods for the quantification of blood loss and identification of PPH. This study’s objective was to compare measures of ...

    Authors: Shubha Ambardekar, Tara Shochet, Hillary Bracken, Kurus Coyaji and Beverly Winikoff
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:276
  30. Childbirth fear is reported to affect around 20% of women. However reporting on levels of symptom severity vary. Unlike Scandinavian countries, there has been limited focus on childbirth fear in Australia. The...

    Authors: Jocelyn Toohill, Jennifer Fenwick, Jenny Gamble and Debra K Creedy
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:275
  31. Parents with past and current eating disorders (ED) have been shown to report troubles nourishing their infants. This could increase the risk of infant feeding problems linked to maternal anxiety and depressio...

    Authors: Claire Squires, Christophe Lalanne, Nasha Murday, Vassiliki Simoglou and Laurence Vaivre-Douret
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:274
  32. Women in pregnancy and postpartum have an increased vulnerability to develop an affective disorder. Affective disorders in pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of prematurity, dysmaturity (foetal we...

    Authors: Hanna M Heller, Annemieke van Straten, Christianne JM de Groot and Adriaan Honig
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:273
  33. The Multiple Courses of Antenatal Corticosteroids for Preterm Birth Study (MACS) showed no benefit in the reduction of major neonatal mortality/morbidity or neurodevelopment at 2 and 5 years of age. Using the dat...

    Authors: Elizabeth Asztalos, Andrew Willan, Kellie Murphy, Stephen Matthews, Arne Ohlsson, Saroj Saigal, Anthony Armson, Edmond Kelly, Marie-France Delisle, Amiram Gafni, Shoo Lee, Renee Sananes, Joanne Rovet, Patricia Guselle and Kofi Amankwah
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:272
  34. The length of time between two successive live births (birth interval), is associated with child survival in the developing world. Short birth intervals (<24 months) contribute to infant and child mortality ri...

    Authors: Tobias F Chirwa, Jocelyn N Mantempa, Felly Lukumu Kinziunga, Joseph D Kandala and Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:271
  35. After the launch of Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer scheme in India, the proportion of women giving birth in institutions has rapidly increased. However, there are important gaps in quality...

    Authors: Kirti Iyengar, Motilal Jain, Sunil Thomas, Kalpana Dashora, William Liu, Paramsukh Saini, Rajesh Dattatreya, Indrani Parker and Sharad Iyengar
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:270
  36. Male involvement in various health practices is recognized as an important factor in improving maternal and child health outcomes. Male involvement interventions involve men in a variety of ways, at varying le...

    Authors: Mari Dumbaugh, Charlotte Tawiah-Agyemang, Alexander Manu, Guus HA ten Asbroek, Betty Kirkwood and Zelee Hill
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:269
  37. Interventions to reduce maternal mortality have focused on delivery in facilities, yet in many low-resource settings rates of facility-based birth have remained persistently low. In Tanzania, rates of facility...

    Authors: Shannon A McMahon, Asha S George, Joy J Chebet, Idda H Mosha, Rose NM Mpembeni and Peter J Winch
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:268
  38. Hypothermia contributes to neonatal morbidity and mortality in low-income countries, yet little is known about thermal care practices in rural African settings. We assessed adoption and community acceptability...

    Authors: Donat Shamba, Joanna Schellenberg, Zoe Jane-Lara Hildon, Irene Mashasi, Suzanne Penfold, Marcel Tanner, Tanya Marchant and Zelee Hill
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:267
  39. Over the last decades there has been a reduction of social inequalities in Brazil, as well as a strong expansion of health services, including prenatal care. The objective of the present study was to estimate ...

    Authors: Ariane Cristina Ferreira Bernardes, Raimundo Antonio da Silva, Liberata Campos Coimbra, Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto Alves, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Rosângela Fernandes Lucena Batista, Heloisa Bettiol, Marco Antônio Barbieri and Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:266
  40. Skilled attendance at delivery is recognized as one of the most important factors in preventing maternal death. However, more than 50% of births in Kenya still occur in non-institutional locations supported by...

    Authors: Yoshito Kawakatsu, Tomohiko Sugishita, Kennedy Oruenjo, Steve Wakhule, Kennedy Kibosia, Eric Were and Sumihisa Honda
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:265
  41. Two prenatal screening tests for congenital anomalies are offered to all pregnant women in the Netherlands on an opt-in basis: the Combined Test (CT) for Down syndrome at twelve weeks, and the Fetal Anomaly Sc...

    Authors: Janneke T Gitsels - van der Wal, Pieternel S Verhoeven, Judith Manniën, Linda Martin, Hans S Reinders, Evelien Spelten and Eileen K Hutton
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:264
  42. The aim of the study was to explore the degree of psychological distress, anxiety, and trauma related stress reactions in mothers who experience preterm birth. Secondarily, we wanted to identify possible predi...

    Authors: Aud R Misund, Per Nerdrum and Trond H Diseth
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:263
  43. Exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) is the practice of feeding only breast milk (including expressed breast milk) during the first six months and no other liquids and solid foods except medications. The time to ces...

    Authors: Tebikew Yeneabat, Tefera Belachew and Muluneh Haile
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:262
  44. Unintended pregnancies may carry serious consequences for women and their families, including the possibility of unsafe abortion, delayed prenatal care, poor maternal mental health and poor child health outcom...

    Authors: Sebastian Eliason, Frank Baiden, Barbara A Yankey and Kofi Awusabo–Asare
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:261
  45. Limited information is available concerning investigating the separate effect of teenage childbirth on medical issues in the antenatal and perinatal periods. Therefore, this study aimed to assess medical probl...

    Authors: Chun-Che Huang, Yung-Chieh Lin, Yu-Tung Huang and Kuang-Hua Huang
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:260
  46. Skilled attendance at delivery is critical in prevention of maternal deaths. However, many women in low- and middle-income countries still deliver without skilled assistance. This study was carried out to iden...

    Authors: Calistus Wilunda, Gianluca Quaglio, Giovanni Putoto, Peter Lochoro, Giovanni Dall’Oglio, Fabio Manenti, Andrea Atzori, Rose Miligan Lochiam, Risa Takahashi, Aline Mukundwa and Koyejo Oyerinde
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:259
  47. The occurrence of obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) has increased in most high-income countries during the past twenty years. The consequences of these injuries can be devastating for women and have an...

    Authors: Malin Edqvist, Helena Lindgren and Ingela Lundgren
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:258
  48. There are limited data on the impact of cesarean section delivery on HIV-1 infected women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of mode of delivery on HIV-1 disease progress...

    Authors: Jennifer A Unger, Barbra A Richardson, Phelgona A Otieno, Carey Farquhar, Dalton Wamalwa and Grace C John-Stewart
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:257
  49. The birth of a first child is an important event in a woman’s life. Delivery psychological impacts vary depending on whether delivery has been positively or negatively experienced. Delivery experience determin...

    Authors: Marie-Julia Guittier, Christine Cedraschi, Nasir Jamei, Michel Boulvain and Francis Guillemin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:254

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