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Autoimmune Skin Diseases Linked To Risk Of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
The three most common autoimmune skin diseases in the study cohort were vitiligo (30%), alopecia areata (30%), and cutaneous lupus erythematosus (...
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Pregnant women with eosinophilic esophagitis show no ill effects from inhaled steroids
Pregnant women who used steroids were not significantly more likely than were those who did not use steroids to experience spontaneous abortion....
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Low-dose aspirin provokes no flares in patients with IBD during pregnancy
Study provides more data on the safety of aspirin use during pregnancy in patients with IBD.
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Risks quantified in medically optimized pregnancy with lupus
Patients who were not medically optimized for pregnancy were three times more likely to experience preterm birth and preeclampsia.
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‘Smart’ stethoscope spots peripartum cardiomyopathy
Finding that 4% of the women in the intervention arm had reduced ejection fraction is “absolutely startling ... and speaks to how important...
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Are we ready for systematic newborn genome sequencing?
In the future, DNA samples could be taken from babies for whole genome sequencing to look for diseases that are likely to crop up later in life....
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More evidence of better outcomes with 120–mm Hg BP target
“We are doing very badly in terms of implementation. There is a big gap between science and what’s happening in the real world.”
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Vasculitis confers higher risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes
“This study should help inform our family planning conversations with our vasculitis patients,” Dr. Lindsay S. Lally said.
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Better postpartum BP control with self-monitoring: POP-HT
“This trial identifies a potential need for a paradigm shift in the way women affected by hypertensive pregnancy are managed postnatally,” said Dr...
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TNF blockers not associated with poorer pregnancy outcomes
Patients with rheumatic disease who continued TNF blockers during their pregnancy did not have an increased risk of worse fetal and maternal...
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Pregnancy in rheumatic disease quadruples risk of cardiovascular events
Pregnant patients with lupus and concomitant APS had an 18-fold higher risk for a cardiovascular event during and up to 6 weeks postpartum than...