Maternal Health

SEATTLE — Repeated exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may negatively affect thyroid function, especially for pregnant women and infants, but more research is needed on the synergistic effects, according to a speaker.

Women with gestational diabetes or gestational thyroid disease are more likely to give birth to a child with congenital hypothyroidism than women without either condition, according to study data.

Genetic testing can be used to confirm a congenital hypothyroidism diagnosis for children, according to findings published in the European Thyroid Journal.

The presence of anti-SSA/RO antibodies in pregnant patients can predict adverse pregnancy outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, according to data published in Pediatric Rheumatology.

Mothers who contract COVID-19 during pregnancy are more likely to have infants with a lower birth weight and greater weight gain during the first year of life compared with mothers who did not have COVID-19, according to study data.

As many as 41% of patients who are 1 year postpartum meet the ASAS criteria for sacroiliitis, which could lead to false positive diagnoses of axial spondyloarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Assistive reproductive therapy is safe and demonstrates “satisfactory outcomes” in patients with systemic lupus erythematous in stable disease, according to data published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Researchers reviewed a decade of maternal and congenital syphilis cases at a Brooklyn hospital and identified two variables associated with infection: racial identities other than Black or white and low socioeconomic status.

A 15-year-old girl in Chad has a one in 15 chance of dying related to pregnancy.

Pfizer presented data for the first time publicly Thursday on its maternal vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus, which was granted priority review this week by the FDA.