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Complicaciones del Embarazo/epidemiología , Fumar/epidemiología , Bases de Datos Factuales , Femenino , Humanos , Evaluación de Necesidades , Nueva Escocia/epidemiología , Vigilancia de la Población , Embarazo , Complicaciones del Embarazo/prevención & control , Prevalencia , Estudios Prospectivos , Cese del Hábito de Fumar , Prevención del Hábito de FumarRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: Weight change between pregnancies was examined to determine if there were an association between weight gain (or loss) and delivery by cesarean section, gestational diabetes or pregnancy-induced hypertension. METHODS: A cohort study was conducted which included Nova Scotia residents with two or more singleton deliveries between 1988 and 1996. Weight change between pregnancies was calculated as the difference in weight from a woman's initial pre-pregnancy weight and the pre-pregnancy weight recorded from her final recorded pregnancy. RESULTS: Weight change between pregnancies was examined in 19,932 women. Women in the highest weight gain category were at an increased risk for developing gestational diabetes (RR = 1.59, 95% CI 1.22-2.08), independent of their weight prior to the final pregnancy, and other confounders. Weight gain (or loss) between pregnancies was not associated with the other outcomes. INTERPRETATION: Weight gain between pregnancy is an independent risk factor for gestational diabetes.
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Resultado del Embarazo/epidemiología , Aumento de Peso , Pérdida de Peso , Cesárea/estadística & datos numéricos , Estudios de Cohortes , Diabetes Gestacional/epidemiología , Diabetes Gestacional/etiología , Femenino , Humanos , Hipertensión/epidemiología , Hipertensión/etiología , Nueva Escocia/epidemiología , Vigilancia de la Población , Embarazo , Complicaciones Cardiovasculares del Embarazo/epidemiología , Complicaciones Cardiovasculares del Embarazo/etiología , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores de RiesgoRESUMEN
A case-control study has been conducted to determine the association between employment as a fire fighter and congenital heart defects among the offspring. Cases were fathers of all children born between 1979 and 1986 in Ontario, Canada, who were diagnosed with a cardiac congenital anomaly during the first year of life (n = 9340). Matched controls (n = 9340), defined as fathers whose child did not have a congenital anomaly, were randomly selected from the Ontario birth certificate file. In order to identify those fathers who had been employed as a fire fighter, the cases and controls were linked to a cohort of Metropolitan Toronto fire fighters. Eleven cases and nine controls worked as fire fighters, giving an odds ratio of 1.22 (95 percent confidence interval 0.46-3.33). This study had sufficient power to detect the level of risk reported in one previous study; however, these results do not support a hypothesis of elevated risk of cardiac congenital anomalies among the offspring of fire fighters.
