Publications by authors named "K Pihl"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the link between cardiac output (CO) and hypertension disorders during pregnancy, specifically preeclampsia, in women with and without fetal growth restriction (FGR).
- In a cohort of 906 pregnant women, findings suggest that low CO is a significant risk factor for preeclampsia, especially in those below 37 weeks of gestation, with women having FGR being at an even higher risk.
- The research highlights the potential importance of monitoring third-trimester cardiovascular function to identify women at risk for preeclampsia, although more studies are needed to confirm these findings.
Objective: To compare clinic and home blood pressure readings in higher risk pregnancies in the antenatal period from 20 weeks gestation, and to evaluate differences between the two modalities.
Study Design: A cohort study comprising a secondary analysis of a large randomised controlled trial (BUMP 1).
Population: Normotensive women at higher risk of pregnancy hypertension randomised to self-monitoring of blood pressure.
Objectives: To describe the distributional properties and assess the performance of placental growth factor (PlGF) measured in blood samples collected before 11 weeks' gestation in the prediction of pre-eclampsia (PE).
Methods: The study population consisted of pregnant women included in the Pre-eclampsia Screening in Denmark (PRESIDE) study with a PlGF measurement from the routine combined first-trimester screening (cFTS) blood sample collected at 8-14 weeks' gestation. PRESIDE was a prospective multicenter study investigating the predictive performance of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) first-trimester screening algorithm for PE in a Danish population.
Introduction: The aim of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to investigate motivation to participate in a possible new screening for preeclampsia in the first trimester of pregnancy among Danish pregnant women through a questionnaire based on Theory of Planned Behavior developed for this specific purpose. The new screening combines maternal characteristics with mean arterial pressure, uterine artery pulsatility index and biochemical markers to predict the risk of preeclampsia, whereas the current Danish screening uses maternal characteristics alone.
Material And Methods: Participation was offered to a proportion of women attending a first or a second trimester screening scan at two University Hospitals in Copenhagen.
Risk of adverse pregnancy outcome in isolated single umbilical artery diagnosed at the mid-trimester anomaly scan: a large Danish retrospective cohort study.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2023
Objective: To examine the association of isolated single umbilical artery (iSUA) confirmed at the mid-trimester anomaly scan and adverse pregnancy outcome and congenital malformations with up to 10 years postnatal follow up.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 116,501 singleton pregnancies consecutively enrolled in first trimester screening for aneuploidies and mid-trimester anomaly scan at three University Hospitals in the Capital Region of Copenhagen, Denmark.Data from the Danish Fetal Medicine Database (2008-2017) were verified by manually scrutinizing pre- and postnatal records.