Magnesium Supplementation and Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: A Double-Blind Randomized Multicenter Study.

Objective: To investigate the effect of magnesium (Mg) supplementation in healthy pregnant women for prevention of blood pressure increase. Secondary outcomes were comparison of biomarkers for hypertensive disorders and labour and fetal outcomes between the groups.

Methods: Two hundred nulliparous healthy pregnant women were double-blind randomized to receive Mg daily or placebo.

Faecal incontinence 20 years after one birth: a comparison between vaginal delivery and caesarean section.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The aetiology of bowel incontinence in middle-aged women is multifactorial and the contribution of birth-related factors later in life is still poorly defined. The aim was to assess prevalence, risk factors and severity of faecal (FI, defined as the involuntary loss of faeces-solid or liquid) and anal incontinence (AI, includes FI as well as the involuntary loss of flatus) 20 years after one vaginal (VD) or one caesarean section (CS).

Methods: This was a registry-based national cohort study of primiparae giving birth in 1985-1988 and having no further births (n = 5,236).

Blood pressure in pregnancy and magnesium sensitive genes.

Objectives: High blood pressure during the last part of pregnancy is a risk indicator of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia which augment infant and maternal morbidity and mortality. Magnesium deficiency has been related to the risk of hypertension. A study was performed to assess the relation between pregnancy induced hypertension, excretion of urinary magnesium and expression of magnesium sensitive genes (MgSG).

Magnesium supplementation to prevent high blood pressure in pregnancy: a randomised placebo control trial.

Purpose: To assess if hypertension during the last part of pregnancy could be prevented by magnesium supplementation.

Methods: Pregnant primagravida women from a local antenatal care unit were given an oral supply of 300 mg magnesium as citrate or placebo from pregnancy week 25 in a randomised double-blind setup. Blood pressure was recorded during pregnancy as well as pregnancy outcome.

Urinary calcium and magnesium excretion relates to increase in blood pressure during pregnancy.

Objective: Pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia are serious clinical manifestations during late pregnancy and the cause for increased maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis is unknown but experience from treatment schemes suggests that minerals may be of importance. Mineral homeostasis is influenced by acid-base conditions.

[Vagina cytological screening--follow up of unsatisfactory specimens].

During the screening of vaginal cytological samples to determine the pre-stages of cervical cancer, some samples cannot be evaluated, usually as a result of the presence of inflammatory cells. In this study, we compare the clinical handling of these samples at two cytology laboratories at the Norra Alvsborgs Hospital, NAL, in Trollhättan, Sweden and the Södra Alvsborgs Hospital, SAS, in Borås, Sweden. We also present a follow-up of the women involved.