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Pregnancy Related Deaths On the Rise in the U.S.

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:05:05 +0000

According to MSNBC, the national rate of pregnancy-related deaths is on the rise. A new government study found that between 1998 and 2005, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths was 14.5 per 100,000 live births. While it may appear low, those figures are higher than the past few decades. In 1979 where were just under 11 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the extent which the rise reflects a true elevation in women is unclear. Chronic medical conditions are exacerbated by pregnancy, including heart disease. Deaths from actual birth such as hemorrhaging are declining. Even high blood pressure that may occur during pregnancy appears to be declining in rates. Another factor is reporting of deaths, as a new cause coding system was implemented in 1999 and a system before it did not have a pregnancy or maternal checkbox.

For the study, the researchers looked at data on 4,693 pregnancy-related deaths reported to the agency between 1998 and 2005. A pregnancy-related death is any death occurring during or within one year of pregnancy that was attributed to pregnancy complications.

The new findings do not underscore the importance of women’s health before and during pregnancy. A lead researcher of CDC’s division of reproductive health suggests that all women should try to have a pre-pregnancy visit with their doctor and get any health issues under control before becoming pregnant. Doctors warn that our society sees more obese women in of childbearing age which raises the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure.

Brain Hibernation for Stroke Victims

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:57:27 +0000

According to Nursing Times, researchers have made recent claims that lowering the temperature of the brain could help victims of stroke by preventing death or disability from occurring.

A group of these researchers are seeking to acquire funding for a trial in 21 countries in Europe, involving 80 hospitals. They hope to reach 1,500 patients.

Lowering the temperature of the brain puts it into a state of hibernation, causing it to require less oxygen. This reduces damage and gives doctors more time to deal with damaged blood vessels.

Currently, doctors use this same technique of putting the brain into hibernation for patients who have an elevated risk of brain damage, either due to cardiac health issues or due to birth defects.

Dr. Malcom Macleod of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh notes that one European dies from a stroke every 90 seconds. Approximately double that amount of people will survive a stroke every day, but will be disabled.

Dr. Macleod also adds that medically induced “hypothermia might improve the outcome for more than 40,000 Europeans every year.”

Though the trial could be expensive, Dr. Stefan Schwab of the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Germany notes that the benefits of the trial would allow it to pay for itself within a year.

Dr. Schwab hopes that this trial will open the door for many additional trials and treatment options involving beneficial medically induced hypothermia, resulting in even more lives saved as the European population ages.

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