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Synopsis: Women with pregestational diabetes or gestational diabetes plus fasting hyperglycemia have a 3- to 4-fold increased risk of infant malformations, whereas women with mild gestational diabetes have malformation rates no different than the general nondiabetic obstetric population.
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Oz and colleagues recently re-explored the possible etiology of the oligohydramnios sometimes seen in post-term pregnancy.
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Zandi and colleagues conducted a prospective study of incident dementia among 1357 men with a mean age of 73.2 years and 1889 women with a mean age of 74.5 years.
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In the weeks following the publication of the first results from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI), I have talked by phone and e-mail with clinicians all over the country.
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Eltabbakh retrospectively reviewed women presenting with clinical stage I endometrial cancer (according to the 1988 FIGO staging) at the University of Vermont. Women treated with laparoscopic surgery were compared with those treated with laparotomy with regard to their characteristics, surgical procedure, treatment, surgical stage, histology, tumor grade, and recurrence-free and overall survival.
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For the past decade, the management of ectopic pregnancy has evolved away from the old adage Never let the sun set on a suspected ectopic pregnancy, to a less surgically-oriented approach.
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This is the first report from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of tamoxifen for the chemoprevention of breast cancer in women deemed to be at high risk.
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In June a report emerged in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that should get every obstetrical providers attention.
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Øjvind Lidegaard is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Denmark who has become an epidemiologist. His case-control studies using the Denmark Registry are recognized as being as good as can be. Lidegaard and colleagues have now published 5-year case-control studies of OCs and venous thromboembolism, and cerebral thrombosis.
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Cervical cancer is the third most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States, accounting for approximately 13,000 new cases in 2002. In this country, the major issue responsible for disparate practice patterns is one of specialty territoriality.
