Individual and community level maternal factors for zero-dose children in Ethiopia using mini-EDHS 2019: a mixed effects model by Anteneh Kassa Yalew, Werkneh Melkie Tilahun, Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu, Tigabu Kidie Tesfie, Muluken Chanie Agimas, Mekuriaw Nibret Aweke, Worku Necho Asferie, Moges Tadesse Abebe

“…To identify significant factors for zero-dose children, a p value of <0.05 with 95% CI was used.Results The prevalence of zero-dose children among children aged 12–35 months was 523 (16.3%, 95% CI 15% to 17.6%). Women with no antenatal care follow-up (adjusted OR (AOR)=1.55, 95% CI 1.02 to 2.35), uneducated women (AOR=1.47, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.95), women who gave birth at home (AOR=1.39, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.86), women who had poor wealth index (AOR=2.15, 95% CI 1.62 to 2.85) and women from low proportions of community media exposure (AOR=1.39, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.71) were the risk factors for zero-dose children in Ethiopia.Conclusion Compared with previous studies, the prevalence of zero-dose children was low in Ethiopia. …”
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The incidence of incomplete abortion and the prevalence of abortion-related morbidity in South African public hospitals, 2018 by D N Conco, J Levin, B Komane, K Blanchard, T Bessenaar, N G Nkosi, S Fonn

“…ICA incidence was 367 (274 - 459) per 100 000 women aged 12 - 49 years. The average age of the women was 27 years, and the majority had a previous pregnancy before the ICA. …”
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GWAS of CRP response to statins further supports the role of APOE in statin response: A GIST consortium study by Emma F. Magavern, Harshal Deshmukh, Geraldine Asselin, Elizabeth Theusch, Stella Trompet, Xiaohui Li, Raymond Noordam, Y.-D. Ida Chen, Teresa E. Seeman, Kent D. Taylor, Wendy S. Post, Jean-Claude Tardif, Dirk S. Paul, Emelia J. Benjamin, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Jerome I. Rotter, Ronald M. Krauss, J.Wouter Jukema, Paul M. Ridker, Patricia B. Munroe, Mark J. Caulfield, Daniel I. Chasman, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Graham A. Hitman, Helen R. Warren

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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…Adjusted ECMH was 25.3% for non-Indigenous women and 18.3% for Indigenous women, peaking at 28.8% and 21.2% in 2013–2018, declining to 25.7% and 18.7% pre-Covid (January 2019 to March 2020), and further declining to 24.0% and 17.4% during Covid, with an increase to 26.6% for non-Indigenous women post-Covid, while remaining similar for Indigenous women. …”
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Comparative-effectiveness research of COVID-19 treatment: a rapid scoping review by Sharon E Straus, Jesmin Antony, Andrea C Tricco, Rachel Warren, Erin Macdonald, Ba Pham, Milan Patel, Fatemeh Yazdi, Amruta Radhakrishnan, Marco Ghassemi, Patricia Rios, Chantal Williams, Naveeta Ramkissoon, Matthew P Muller, Nazia Darvesh, Gordon V Cormack, Maura R Grossman, Melissa Kampman, Reid Robson

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Hubungan Stresor Psikososial pada Kehamilan dengan Partus Prematurus by Yuli Nenti Herlina, Desmiwarti ., Edison .

“…<div class="WordSection1"><p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p></div><em><br clear="all" /> </em><p> Partus prematurus merupakan suatu keadaan patologis dengan beragam penyebab, lebih kurang 50% disebabkan prematur spontan yang merupakan akselerasi sumbu HPA ibu-janin yang disebabkan stres fisik dan psikologis dalam kehamilan. …”
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Comparison of Plasma Neurosteroid and Prolactin Levels in Patients with Schizophrenia and Healthy Individuals by Forough Riahi, Maryam Izadi-mazidi, Ali Ghaffari, Elham Yousefi, Shahram Khademvatan

“…A total of 100 patients with schizophrenia disorder (69 men and 31 women) and 190 healthy individuals (94 men and 96 women) participated in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Prevention in Tanzania (CONCEPT) study: Cohort profile by Ditte Søndergaard Linde, Vibeke Rasch, Julius D Mwaiselage, Rachel Manongi, Patricia Swai, Chunsen Wu, Bariki Mchome, Johnson Katanga, Crispin Kahesa, Susanne Kjaer

“…Purpose Cervical cancer is a major cause of death among women in Eastern Africa, and the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) according to HIV status is inadequately characterised in this region. …”
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Factors Linked to the Development of Anemia in Pregnant Mothers by Ni Kadek Suantari, Ni Wayan Suarniti, Listina Ade Widya Ningtyas

“…This research uses quantitative methods with a cross-sectional approach. Respondents in this study totaled 36 respondents. …”
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Performance of HPV E4 and p16INK4a biomarkers in predicting regression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 (CIN2): protocol for a historical cohort study by David Jenkins, Mark H Stoler, Anne Hammer, Torben Steiniche, Lone Kjeld Petersen, Patti E Gravitt, Rikke Kamp Damgaard, Maurits NC de Koning, Wim GV Quint, John Doorbar, Johnny Kahlert

“…Tissue samples from women included will be sectioned for p16INK4a and HPV E4 immunohistochemical staining in addition to conventional hematoxylin and eosin (H&amp;E) staining. …”
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Trends and factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes in Zimbabwe, 2005 - 2015 by T Chibura, H Twabi, K Maluleke, A Musekiwa

“…This article is a secondary data analysis of three repeated cross-sectional Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys to assess adverse pregnancy outcomes among women of reproductive age (15 - 49 years old) who fell pregnant during the study period. …”
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Benign Adrenocortical Tumors and the Detection of Nonadrenal Neoplasia by Meng Hao, Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez, Diana Lopez, Kathryn Cote, Jessica Newfield, Molly Connors, Anand Vaidya

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Predictors of plasma HDL-C concentrations in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study by James M. Shikany, John R. Bassler, Jared P. Reis, Pamela J. Schreiner, David T. Redden, John T. Wilkins, Cora E. Lewis

“…We performed multiple linear regression of HDL-C at each CARDIA exam in a cross-sectional analysis, and linear mixed-effects regression to assess the longitudinal change of HDL-C across exams, treating time as a linear predictor, separately in women and men. …”
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The Implications of Multiple Repeat Cesarean Deliveries on Maternal Morbidity by Esra Can, Süleyman Cemil Oğlak

“…STUDY DESIGN: The cohort of this retrospective study consisted of all pregnant women who gave birth in our hospital via elective or emergency CD and who had previously undergone one or more other cesarean sections. …”
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Role of epigenetics in aetiology and therapies for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A narrative review by Yahaya O Tajudeen, Ufuoma B Shemishere

“…The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between social media use and disordered eating outcomes among young Arab women. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using a probability sample of 1,418 undergraduate female students living in Qatar, a rapidly developing nation in the Middle East. …”
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Scoping review of cytolytic vaginosis literature. by Roni Kraut, Fabiola Diaz Carvallo, Richard Golonka, Sandra M Campbell, Anoush Rehmani, Oksana Babenko, Mao-Cheng Lee, Pedro Vieira-Baptista

“…Evidence for prevalence in symptomatic women (median prevalence of 5%, interquartile range 3%-8%) was based only on 16% of studies (n = 10) with minimal evidence on prevalence in asymptomatic women and across different geographic regions. …”
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PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN MEMBERS OF TWO LARGE FITNESS CLUBS OF THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ, BRAZIL by Tony Meireles Santos, Bruno Ribeiro Ramalho Oliveira, Geraldo de Albuquerque Maranhão Neto, Marcos Santos Ferreira, Walter Rolph Thompson

“…The objectives of this study were: to assess the prevalence of overweight/obesity in two large fitness clubs of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; to compare its results with municipal andnational demographic data; and to compare the prevalence and magnitude of overweight/obesity between genders and age groups. A cross-sectional, retrospective study wasconducted with 12,415 subjects (4,932 men and 7,483 women), selected from the database of two fitness clubs of the city of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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The impact of marriage on breastfeeding duration: examining the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized communities by Anna Charlotta Kihlstrom, Tara Stiller, Nishat Sultana, Grace Njau, Matthew Schmidt, Anastasia Stepanov, Andrew D. Williams

“…Pre-COVID, marriage was a stronger predictor for all breastfeeding durations in low-income women (4-month duration OR 4.07, 95%CI 2.52, 6.58) than for high-income women (4-month duration OR 1.76, 95%CI 1.06, 2.91). …”
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The “Gender Factor” in Wearing-Off among Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Post Hoc Analysis of DEEP Study by Delia Colombo, Giovanni Abbruzzese, Angelo Antonini, Paolo Barone, Gilberto Bellia, Flavia Franconi, Lucia Simoni, Mahmood Attar, Emanuela Zagni, Shalom Haggiag, Fabrizio Stocchi

“…The early detection of wearing-off in Parkinson disease (DEEP) observational study demonstrated that women with Parkinson’s disease (PD) carry an increased risk (80.1%) for wearing-off (WO). …”
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Maternal and Perinatal Outcome of Triplet Pregnancies in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India: A Prospective Observational Study by Sabreen Wani, Fiza Amin, Shagufta Yasmeen Rather

“…The majority, 70.7% (n=31) of these women, had conceived by assisted reproductive technique (ART), mostly in vitro fertilisation (IVF), 52.9% (n=18). …”
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