Objective We sought to investigate whether maternal arterial stiffness is altered in pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and type 2 diabetes compared to normoglycemic women. Study Design We…
Objective The objective of the study was to determine predictors of cesarean delivery morbidity associated with massive obesity. Study Design This was an institutional review board–approved retrospective study of massively…
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the rates of late preterm inductions without a medical indication from birth certificate data and to compare them with rates that…
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the involvement of lipoxygenase (LOX) metabolic pathways in uterine tissues from pregnant women as well as the combined inhibition of LOX…
Objective We sought to assess body mass index (BMI) effect on cesarean risk during labor. Study Design The Consortium on Safe Labor collected electronic data from 228,668 deliveries. Women with…
Objective We sought to investigate the effect of body mass index (BMI) on in vitro response to tocolytics. Study Design Myometrial biopsies were obtained at the time of scheduled cesarean…
Objective The purpose of this study was to assess funnel type and pregnancy duration in women with previous spontaneous preterm birth and cervical length <25 mm. Study Design We performed…
Objective We sought to examine if 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17OHPC) effectiveness is dependent on the earliest gestational age (GA) at prior spontaneous preterm birth (SPTB) when administered in the clinical setting….
Objective The goals of the study were to estimate the pharmacokinetic parameters of standard dose betamethasone in a large obstetrics population and evaluate the effect of maternal body size and…
Objective We sought to test the hypothesis that sildenafil citrate (SC) at low concentrations potentiates the tocolytic effects of nifedipine in vitro. Study Design Myometrial biopsies were obtained from 22…
