Gestational weight gain above or below the Institute of Medicine recommendations was associated with a greater risk for adverse outcomes.

Lower birth weight is linked to increased COPD risk, especially among smokers, highlighting the importance of early-life factors in COPD development. The study utilized the UK Biobank, analyzing over ...

Around two-thirds (68%) of pregnancies have weight gain that is more or less than recommended and that is associated with ...

Birth weight is significantly associated with cognitive (mental) ability at age 8 years, through adolescence, and into early adulthood, independent of social background. Furthermore, birth weight is ...

Amid a rise in GLP-1s, health experts warn about the medication's unknown effects on nursing and the body's postpartum ...

FAT jabs could harm mum and baby if taken too close to pregnancy, a study suggests. Women who used the GLP-1 injections, such ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is marking its first official observance of World Prematurity Day with the launch of a ...

Southampton, UK - A new study indicates that smaller size at birth is associated with sex-specific alterations in cardiac physiology [1]. In one of the few studies to look at this phenomenon in ...