GYNECOLOGY
Interventions at home births
We congratulate the authors of the publication on selected perinatal outcomes associated with planned home births in the United States that agree with our findings that home births are associated…
Opportunistic salpingectomy: uptake, risks, and complications of a regional initiative for ovarian cancer prevention
Materials and Methods Database and requested parameters This large retrospective cohort study was conducted with the use of data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information Discharge Abstract Database that…
Lifetime physical activity and pelvic organ prolapse in middle-aged women
Objective To determine, in a case-control study, whether pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is associated with overall lifetime physical activity (combined leisure, outdoor, household, occupational), and lifetime leisure, lifetime strenuous, and…
HPV testing with cytology triage for cervical cancer screening in routine practice
Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of Viral Testing Alone with Pap (Papanicolaou) Triage for Screening Cervical Cancer in Routine Practice (VASCAR) in…
Findings of universal cystoscopy at incontinence surgery and their sequelae
Objective The purpose of this study was to report the frequency of abnormal cystoscopy at incontinence surgery and to identify risk factors and sequelae of injury. Study Design Findings of…
Impact of monozygotic twinning on multiple births resulting from in vitro fertilization in the United States, 2006–2010
Objective To determine the contribution of monozygotic twining to in vitro fertilization multiple births. Study Design We performed a retrospective analysis of the incidence of monozygotic twining in multiple births resulting…
In utero exposure to a maternal high-fat diet alters the epigenetic histone code in a murine model
Objective Data from animal models show that in utero exposure to a maternal high-fat diet (HFD) renders susceptibility of these offspring to the adult onset of metabolic syndrome. We and…
The role of NADPH oxidase in a mouse model of fetal alcohol syndrome
Objective Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most common cause of nongenetic mental retardation. Oxidative stress is one of the purported mechanisms. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (NOX) is an…
Obesity and the risk of stillbirth: a population-based cohort study
Materials and Methods Currently, there are no available national stillbirth databases in the United States that include maternal prepregnancy weight. Therefore, we queried all 50 states individually to identify state-level…
