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Womens Health (Lond)
December 2024
School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Background: Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health problem. While research exists on GBV and associated help-seeking behaviors among university students, few studies have assessed the prevalence of GBV, including experiences and barriers to help-seeking, within sub-Saharan African university settings.
Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of GBV victimization among university students in six sub-Saharan African countries and describe experiences of formal and informal help-seeking among students who self-identified as victims of GBV since attending university.
Reprod Health
December 2024
Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Background: Tanzania, like most low- and middle-income countries, is facing an increasing prevalence of obesity in the general population, including among women of reproductive age. Excess weight pre-pregnancy is a risk factor for the onset of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), which is associated with several poor pregnancy outcomes. Screening for GDM, as a primary preventive measure, is not systematically done in Tanzania.
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December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Linköping, and Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, S-581 85, Sweden.
Background: The objectives were to determine the prevalence of de novo and persistent pelvic pain after benign hysterectomy and to assess risk factors.
Methods: A Swedish prospective multicenter study of 440 women undergoing benign hysterectomy was conducted between October 2011 and March 2017. Measures of pain, the spatial extent of bodily pain, and pain sensitivity were assessed using a self-reporting questionnaire, Margolis's patient pain drawing, and quantitative sensory testing of pain thresholds for pressure, heat, and cold, respectively.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
December 2024
Midwifery Academy Amsterdam Groningen, Inholland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Background: After childbirth, women often experience changes in sexual health. Little is known about the associated factors for the development of sexual health problems. Therefore, in this study we aim to investigate (1) how many women report changes in sexual health; (2) the prevalence and associated factors of women's postpartum sexual health problems and (3) whether women want to be better informed about postpartum sexual health after childbirth.
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December 2024
Department of Anaesthesia, College of Medicine and Health Science, Wachemo University, Hosanna, Ethiopia.
Background: Hemodynamic changes are independent risk factors for long-term patient morbidity and duration of hospital stay. According to the statistics, the three most prevalent complications in the postanaesthesia care unit were airway events, haemodynamic instability, and postoperative nausea and vomiting. Hemodynamic instability in the postanaesthesia care unit can result in serious complications, such as long-term patient morbidity and prolonged hospital stays.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina United States of America.
Background: Few studies have assessed the impact of first-trimester malaria infection during pregnancy. We estimated this impact on adverse maternal and pregnancy outcomes.
Methods: In a convenience sample of women from the ASPIRIN (Aspirin Supplementation for Pregnancy Indicated risk Reduction In Nulliparas) trial in Kenya, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we tested for first-trimester Plasmodium falciparum infection using quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
J Low Genit Tract Dis
January 2025
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Sunshine Hospital, Western Health, St Albans, Victoria, Australia.
Introduction: The Australian National Cervical Screening Program has mandated management algorithms that are uniform across all age groups, but evidence is emerging that perhaps the risk of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) may decrease in the postmenopausal period.
Objective: The aim of the study is to identify whether patients ≥50 years of age referred to a tertiary colposcopy service have a different risk of HSIL or greater (+).
Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study of 3239 referrals to a hospital colposcopy clinic with a positive human papillomavirus (HPV) cervical screening test between December 2017 and May 2023.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
December 2024
Division of Neonatology, Dr. von Hauner'sches Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany.
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: Primary objective To assess the benefits and harms of air compared with supplemental oxygen for resuscitation of term or late preterm infants at birth in reducing rates of mortality and long-term neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI). Secondary objectives To assess whether the benefits and harms of air compared with supplemental oxygen differ according to different oxygen concentrations, gestational age (GA), whether oxygen was titrated to saturation curves and the income of the study country.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ovarian Res
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
Purpose: To compare the efficacy and safety of metformin, anti-obesity agents, and inositol with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, and ClinicalTrials.gov for studies published in English up to October 26, 2024.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
December 2024
Leuven University Fertility Center, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Introduction: Few data is available on the natural course of luteinizing hormone (LH) during ovarian stimulation, but it has been suggested that 'oversuppressed' LH could decrease fertility outcomes. Our aim with this study is to evaluate the changes in LH depending on the used stimulation protocol to better define LH oversuppressioin.
Methods: Patients undergoing oocyte retrieval in a tertiary fertility center between 01-01-2015 and 30-09-2020 after stimulation with a short-agonist (SA) or antagonist (A) protocol were included.
BMC Psychiatry
December 2024
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Quanzhou First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China.
Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a prevalent endocrine disorder among women, is frequently comorbid with depression. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the prevalence of depression among women with PCOS in mainland China.
Method: A comprehensive literature search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Chinese databases (CNKI, WanFang, and VIP) up to August 2024.
World J Surg Oncol
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinicopathological characteristics and patterns of care among women diagnosed with vulvar malignancy at a tertiary care teaching institute. Additionally, the study aimed to analyse the implications of revised FIGO staging system on stage shift and patient outcomes.
Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted, wherein hospital records of biopsy-proven cases of vulvar cancers managed over a period of 10 years were comprehensively reviewed.
Malar J
December 2024
School of Medical Laboratory Science, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.
Background: Placental malaria (PM) is characterized by Plasmodium parasite sequestration in the placenta. It is responsible for various adverse pregnancy outcomes, including maternal anaemia and low birth weight (LBW). This study aimed to assess prevalence and risk factors of PM, and gestational malaria (GM), together with the prevalence of congenital malaria (CM), maternal anaemia, and LBW among parturient women attending delivery ward of Metti Health Centre (Metti HC) in Majang Zone of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia.
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December 2024
Medical Genetic Diagnosis and Therapy Center of Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350001, People's Republic of China.
Objective: Thalassemia, an inherited hemoglobin synthesis disorder, imposes a significant health burden in Asian regions with high prevalence. Detailed patterns and trends of the disease across countries and territories within these regions remain underexplored. Our study focuses on the disease burden indices of thalassemia within the four GBD-defined Asian regions and the twenty-five included countries and territories.
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December 2024
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
Background: Risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders) arise in adolescence but are mostly framed as relevant to health in adulthood; little is known about the relationship between co-occurring NCD risks and mental wellbeing in young people. This study aims to describe the prevalence and co-occurrence of distinct NCD risk factors, and how they relate to current mental wellbeing amongst adolescents in Indonesia, a young and populous country where NCD burden is increasing rapidly.
Methods: We assessed NCD risk and mental wellbeing amongst 1,331 school-based 16-18-year-olds in Jakarta (N = 609) and South Sulawesi (N = 722).
J Infect Dev Ctries
November 2024
Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Sciences, SIMAD University, Mogadishu, Somalia.
Introduction: Somalia is among the countries with a high burden of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2022, 660,000 infections are reported among women globally, out of which 350,000 died from the disease. Most of the studies on HPV reported from Somalia are based on cytologic analysis which is a subjective and suboptimal assessment.
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February 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan.
Background: This study seeks to investigate the relationship between birth experience and risk of developing postpartum depression among Jordanian women. Furthermore, it aims to explore the prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression and raise awareness of it among Jordanians.
Material And Methods: This study was carried out on 214 postpartum Jordanian women at Jordan University Hospital (JUH).
Pan Afr Med J
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of the Witwatersrand and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Introduction: critical incidents are among the ten leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Improving patient safety is a global priority and one way of achieving this goal is to report and analyse critical incidents. We aimed to establish the incidence, describe the profile, patient outcomes and avoidable factors associated with gynaecological critical incidents in an academic hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken)
December 2024
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, California, USA.
Background: This study examines whether state-level alcohol policy types in the United States relate to substance use disorder treatment admissions and birth outcomes among young pregnant and birthing people.
Methods: We used data from the Treatment Episode Data Set: Admissions (TEDS-A) and Vital Statistics birth data for 1992-2019. We examined 16 state-level policies, grouped into three types: youth-specific, general population, and pregnancy-specific alcohol policies.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Objective: To assess the neonatal survival rates, maternal complications, neonatal complications, and factors associated with survival rates following periviable premature rupture of membranes (PROM) between 15 and 23 weeks of gestation.
Materials And Methods: The retrospective study included patients with periviable PROM between 15 and 23 weeks of gestation from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2022. Multivariate regression analysis was performed to identify factors influencing neonatal survival.
J Trop Pediatr
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraydah 51911, Saudi Arabia.
Anaemia among adolescents is a worldwide health problem; however, data on anaemia among adolescents in Sudan are scarce. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of anaemia and iron-deficiency anaemia among adolescent schoolchildren in northern Sudan. Socio-demographic information was collected using a questionnaire.
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December 2024
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Aim: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depression risk among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a district hospital in Kumasi, Ghana.
Study Design: This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study.
Methods: A questionnaire was used to collect data from 207 pregnant women attending antenatal care at Manhyia District Hospital from September 2020 to November 2020.
Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet
December 2024
Universidade de Passo Fundo Faculty of Medicine Passo FundoRS Brazil Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil.
Objective: To verify the prevalence and factors associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) among women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 53 patients with PCOS. The diagnosis of PCOS followed the Rotterdam criteria.
Epidemiol Infect
December 2024
Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
The rat lungworm is a zoonotic metastrongyloid nematode currently considered an emerging pathogen. Originating in Southeast Asia, this nematode has spread to tropical and subtropical parts of the world via its invasive rodent and gastropod hosts.On the island of Tenerife in the Canary archipelago, the invasion was recognized more than a decade ago.
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December 2024
Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
Introduction: We examined trends in prepregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain, with a focus on racial and ethnic differences, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Carolina.
Methods: Hospital and emergency department discharge codes were linked to birth certificates. Prepregnancy obesity was defined as a body mass index (kg/m) of 30 or higher.