Top in women's health: Impact of diet, lifestyle on fertility; postmenopausal hot flashes
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In a Healio interview exclusive, two experts discussed the roles that diet and lifestyle play in promoting fertility among women seeking to conceive.
“I’ve worked with hundreds of women individually and in our Food for Fertility classes and learned that focusing on what women can add to their diet can be so impactful,” Judy Simon, MS, RDN, CD, CHES, FAND, a registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in reproductive health and a clinical instructor at the University of Washington, told Healio.
“Too many women have been fat shamed and blamed for their infertility and think they must be on a restrictive diet and focus on weight loss to get pregnant,” she added.“Instead, women should focus on fueling their body and reproductive system.”.
It was the top story in women’s health last week.
In another top story, researchers found that although 57.6% of postmenopausal women self-reported moderate to very severe vasomotor symptoms during primary care visits, only 22.7% had their symptoms documented in electronic health records.
Read these and more top stories in women’s health below:
Q&A: Diet and lifestyle can promote fertility
Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Judy Simon, MS, RDN, CD, CHES, FAND, about how women seeking to conceive, whether naturally or with assisted reproduction, can optimize nutrition to boost fertility. Read more.
Poor hot flash documentation in primary care setting leaves many midlife women untreated
Many postmenopausal women self-reported moderate or higher vasomotor symptoms in the primary care setting but remained untreated due to lack of electronic health record documentation, researchers reported. Read more.
Low, high maternal folate levels tied to congenital heart disease risk in offspring
Women with serum folate levels that were too low or too high during midpregnancy were more likely to have an infant born with congenital heart disease, with maternal vitamin B12 and homocysteine levels modulating risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open. Read more.
Mifepristone pretreatment reduces procedural management, ED visits in early pregnancy loss
Women with early pregnancy loss who received misoprostol alone without pretreatment with mifepristone were more likely to receive subsequent procedural management and have visits to the ED, researchers reported. Read more.
Preterm birth test-and-treat strategy reduces neonatal morbidity, mortality
Screening pregnancies without traditional risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth risk with a biomarker blood test and targeting preventive treatments for high-risk women reduced neonatal hospitalization, morbidity and mortality. Read more.