Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have substantially higher rates of insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and metabolic syndrome when compared with women without the disease. Given…
Background The clinical and financial burden from bladder infections is significant. Daily antibiotic use is the recommended strategy for recurrent urinary tract infection prevention. Increasing antibiotic resistance rates, however, require…
Substance use during pregnancy is at least as common as many of the medical conditions screened for and managed during pregnancy. While harmful and costly, it is often ignored or…
Related article, page 539 . In this issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology , we are introduced to “The role of screening, brief intervention, and referral to…
Objectives In the context of current and future multi-national maternal immunization efforts, under the Global Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy (GAIA) project, we created a definition for gestational…
Objectives Background: Neisseria gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection that has increased in prevalence by 10.5% nationally since 2010 in the US. The incidence of gonorrhea in teenagers in Peoria…
Objectives Background: Myocarditis commonly presents as a young male with flu-like symptoms and elevated ESR, characteristics which make it easily overlooked by an obstetrician. While current incidence is unknown, myocarditis…
Objectives To determine if there is an increased risk of postpartum infection in women with Hepatitis C in pregnancy. Methods We conducted a case-control study of women who delivered at…
Objectives To identify differences in characteristics and attitudes of women with recurrent VVC and acute VVC (mild, moderate/severe) and assess unmet needs. Methods 478 U.S. women (18-59 y) participated in…
Objectives The delivery of a neonate prior to viability creates difficult decisions for health care providers and parents alike. The decision to use antibiotics during this previable period can sometimes…
