Maternal Health

A review of websites selling direct-to-consumer anti-Müllerian hormone tests found that most of them made false claims, potentially misleading consumers into believing the tests can predict chances of conception and age of menopause.

An advisory panel composed of 21 psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians has developed a set of educational materials to address maternal mental health needs.

From 2008 to 2021, delivery-related mortality decreased for all races, ethnicities, age groups and modes of delivery in the U.S. while severe maternal morbidity increased, according to an HHS study.

Women who have gestational diabetes during pregnancy have a more than 11 times higher risk for developing diabetes than women who did not have gestational diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetes Care.

Maternal obsessive-compulsive disorder was associated with increased adverse pregnancy, delivery and neonatal outcomes, according to findings from two cohort studies published in JAMA Network Open.

A Texas health system moderately increased adherence to syphilis testing among pregnant people by implementing a tool that interrupted the completion of a chart if a test was not ordered, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

Loneliness frequently plays an important mental health role for women who experience perinatal depression, according to a meta-synthesis published in BMC Psychiatry.

Women exposed to higher concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances during pregnancy have children with higher BMI z scores and greater risks for overweight or obesity at age 2 to 5 years, according to study data.

Breastfeeding has lasting beneficial effects on cardiometabolic health, including lowering the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, for mothers and obesity in their children, according to a life course epidemiologist.

For National Women’s Health Week, Healio Editors compiled news on pregnancy.