Evaluation of a peer counselling programme to sustain breastfeeding practice in Hong Kong.

Background: Peer counselling is reported to increase breastfeeding rates. We evaluated an intervention consisting of mainly telephone contact peer counselling programme on breastfeeding duration and exclusivity.

Methods: Peer counsellors (PCs) were mothers who had successfully breastfed and had received formal training.

A case-controlled study comparing clinical course and outcomes of pregnant and non-pregnant women with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Objective: To compare the clinical courses and outcomes of pregnant severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients and non-pregnant SARS patients.

Design: A case-control study.

Setting: Tertiary Hospital for Infectious Disease.

Nasal bone hypoplasia: is it a common finding amongst chromosomally normal fetuses of southern Chinese women?

Objective: To assess the incidence of nasal hypoplasia among fetuses of southern Chinese women.

Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted at Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong. All pregnant women referred for chromosomal studies before 14 weeks were assessed.

Transvaginal sonography in the detection of retained products of conception after first-trimester spontaneous abortion.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the use of transvaginal sonography to detect retained products of conception after first-trimester spontaneous abortion.

Methods: All women who arrived at our hospital with spontaneous first-trimester abortions were included in this study and underwent transvaginal sonography. A sonographic diagnosis of "incomplete abortion" was based on a bilayer endometrial thickness of more than 8 mm.

Diabetic family history is an isolated risk factor for gestational diabetes after 30 years of age.

Background: Family history of diabetes is regarded as a risk factor for gestational glucose intolerance. Most selective screening policy includes family history as an indication of oral glucose tolerance test. However, few studies had evaluated the actual incidence of glucose intolerance in this group of women.