OBJECTIVE: Urinary incontinence is a chronic health complaint that severely reduces
quality of life. Pregnancy and vaginal delivery are main risk factors in the development of …

Objective To examine the effect of cardiovascular risk factors before pregnancy on risk of pre-
eclampsia. Design Population based prospective study. Setting Linkage between a …

Background. Prevention of lumbopelvic pain in pregnancy has been sparsely studied. One
aim of this study was to assess if a 12-week training program during pregnancy can prevent …

The aim of the study was to measure pelvic floor muscle function in continent and
incontinent nulliparous pregnant women. The study group consisted of 103 nulliparous …

Background Existing evidence on the effects of race and ethnicity on pregnancy outcomes is
restricted to individual studies done within specific countries and health systems. We aimed …

Objective. To analyze the effect of intravenous ferrous sucrose compared with oral ferrous
sulphate on hematological parameters and quality of life in women with postpartum anemia …

To ensure optimal calcium accrual in the fetal skeleton, a substantial rise occurs in 1, 25-
dihydroxyvitamin D (1, 25 (OH) 2D), but is dependent on sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin (25 …

Background Maternal obesity associates with complications during pregnancy and
childbirth. Our aim was to investigate if exercise during pregnancy in overweight/obese …

Aim Current US guidelines suggest that pregnant women should exercise regularly during
pregnancy, and we examined the neurodevelopment of the children whose mothers had …

Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases the risk for preeclampsia and
macrosomia. GDM is conventionally diagnosed by an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) …