The Pregnancy Meeting

Micro- and nanoplastics accumulate in preterm birth placentas, but not term placentas, and further investigation is needed to fully understand the impact on fetal development and pregnancy outcomes, findings show.

Women who reported snoring or having poor diet quality during their first trimester were more likely to develop a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, increasing their risk for cardiovascular events after delivery, researchers reported.

An AI software system trained to detect findings suspicious for fetal congenital heart defects significantly improved sensitivity and specificity compared with unaided reviews of 2D scans, researchers reported at The Pregnancy Meeting.

ChatGPT 3.0 generated satisfactory responses when asked common pregnancy questions, but responses became inconsistent when asked various iterations of the same question, data show.

Women with an unplanned cesarean delivery had increased odds of developing postpartum depression and attending postpartum visits vs. those who delivered via planned cesarean or vaginally, researchers reported.

Compared with usual care, a mid-trimester blood test designed to predict preterm birth for average-risk women markedly reduced neonatal morbidity when paired with a three-step treatment bundle, researchers reported at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Pregnant women are more likely to die of violence than any medical cause in the U.S. and are at greater risk for violent death compared with nonpregnant women, underscoring the need for intimate partner violence screening, data show.

An RNA platform successfully predicted fetal growth restriction within the second trimester of pregnancy, independent of other risk factors, according to a presentation at The Pregnancy Meeting.