Top in women's health: Fertility advice for women with PCOS; type 2 diabetes in pregnancy
In the second part of an interview about nutrition for fertility, two experts discussed nutrition and other lifestyle considerations for women with polycystic ovary syndrome trying to conceive.
They also address what to do about advice to lose weight, highlighting that clinicians should avoid language that perpetuates weight bias and stigma.
“Not all women who are thin struggle with fertility and not all women with overweight or obesity do either,” Judy Simon, MS, RDN, CD, CHES, FAND, a registered dietitian nutritionist who specializes in reproductive health, told Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, owner of Susan Weiner Nutrition PLLC and Healio | Women’s Health & OB/GYN Nourish to Flourish column editor. “Medicine needs to stop conflating weight with health.”
It was the top story in women’s health last week.
In another top story, researchers found that pregnant women with type 2 diabetes had a greater risk for perinatal mortality vs. those with type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes and no diabetes.
Read these and more top stories in women’s health below:
Q&A: How women with PCOS can boost fertility
Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Judy Simon, MS, RDN, CD, CHES, FAND, about nutrition and other lifestyle considerations for women with polycystic ovary syndrome seeking to conceive. Read more.
‘Increasingly common’ type 2 diabetes in pregnancy drives perinatal mortality risk
Pregnant women with type 2 diabetes have a greater risk for perinatal mortality vs. pregnant women with type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes and no diabetes, researchers reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Read more.
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Postnatal hemolytic disease management varies significantly worldwide, consensus needed
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National support for expanded access to medication abortion rose since Dobbs
Survey data showl support for expanded medication abortion access, including advance provision and over-the-counter availability, rose since the Dobbs decision, particularly among women residing in abortion-restrictive states. Read more.