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Postpartum stress higher in more affluent mothers. (Less Family, Cultural Support).
LOS ANGELES -- Stress associated with pregnancy eases after the birth more for poorer urban women than for their affluent counterparts, Dr. Iffath A. Hoskins reported in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation.
In the postpartum period of 1,006 pregnancies studies, significant stress related to the birth was reported by two-thirds of women of higher socioeconomic status but just under one-third of those with a lower socioeconomic status. Less affluent women attributed their lower stress levels to the kinds of family or cultural support systems that wealthier women lacked.
A total of 487 pregnant women seen in public clinics serving indigent or immigrant patients in Manhattan's Lower East Side and Chinatown completed questionnaires to assess self-perceived stress. The questionnaires also were answered by 519 pregnant women seen in private clinics serving ...
- Pregnancy, postpartum period predispose cerebral arteries to forced dilatation.
- Newspaper article from: Heart Disease Weekly July 25, 2004 700+ words
...NewsRx.net) -- Pregnancy and the postpartum period involve changes in cerebral artery...hypothesis that pregnancy and/or the postpartum period predispose cerebral arteries to FD...suggest that both pregnancy and the postpartum period predispose the cerebral circulation...
- The Postpartum Period.(Labor and Delivery)
- The Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide Giardina, Elsa-Grace January 1, 1995 700+ words
The Postpartum Period Breast-Feeding Breast milk is nutritionally ideal for a newborn...not yet understood. A woman who feels severely depressed in the postpartum period should seek medical help promptly. Postpartum Checkup The postpartum...
- The postpartum period. (Pregnancy and Birth)
- The Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide Leppert, Phyllis January 1, 1989 700+ words
THE POSTPARTUM PERIOD TODAY, MOST WOMEN who give birth in the hospital remain for 3...not yet understood. A woman who feels severely depressed in the postpartum period should seek medical help promptly. Postpartum Checkup It is important...
- Suspecting Thyroiditis During the Postpartum Period
- Magazine article from: International Journal of Childbirth Education Bianchi, Ann L. December 31, 1996 700+ words
Suspecting Thyroiditis During the Postpartum Period Adjusting to the many physical, emotional and hormonal...problems that may also occur during this phase of the postpartum period. To this end, an accurate diagnosis of postpartum...
- Glomerular hyperfiltration prevails during the early postpartum period.
- Newspaper article from: Blood Weekly March 25, 2004 700+ words
2004 MAR 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Glomerular hyperfiltration prevails during the early postpartum period. According to researchers in Canada, "we evaluated the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) during the second postpartum...
- Hepatitis C May Flare In New Mothers During Postpartum Period.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly Nichols, Sonia July 5, 2001 700+ words
...pregnancy. In addition, serum markers to assess liver function became normal during gestation. Suddenly, a month into the postpartum period the patient's HCV RNA levels rose, and serum markers for liver function increased by more than 20 times values considered...
- Course and Treatment of Mood Disorders During Pregnancy and the Postpartum...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News September 1, 2000 700+ words
PREGNANT PATIENTS who may have a psychiatric illness like major depression "provoke a great deal of anxiety in clinicians, due in part to the fact that ob/ gyns may not be familiar with the course of these illnesses and in part to an unfamiliarity with safety data surrounding the use of
- Studies from State University of New York yield new information about cervical...
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly July 9, 2009 700+ words
...smears that persist into the postpartum period, and identify associated...family practice in upstate New York front 2000 to 2004." "Descriptive...colleagues, State University of New York (see also Cervical Cancer...Pregnancy, State University of New York. This article ...