by Elana Gotkine After accounting for measurable confounders, the risk for miscarriage is increased in association with benzodiazepine use during pregnancy, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in JAMA Psychiatry. Lin-Chieh Meng, from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, and colleagues quantified the risk for miscarriage associated with benzodiazepine use during pregnancy in...
Carrying a child to term is a miracle of motherhood. A lot of women struggle to get pregnant and carry their babies to term. And now scientists at the University of Queensland found that women with a history of miscarriage and stillbirth have a higher risk of stroke in later life. There are women who...
by Estonian Research Council Triin Laisk, a Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian Genome Center. Credit: Reedik Mägi Researchers at the Estonian Genome Center at the University of Tartu have described hitherto undiscovered associations between miscarriage and maternal genes. They have published their findings in Nature Communications. Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy, affecting...
