(HealthDay News) — For pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes, falling insulin requirement (FIR) is associated with altered expression of placental antiangiogenic factors and preeclampsia, ...

Scientists are uncovering how the placenta, long viewed as a temporary pregnancy organ, acts as a powerful biological predictor of lifelong health, linking prenatal environments to future risks of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rates of increased perivillous fibrin deposition were notably higher in SLE pregnancies with SGA vs. without SGA ...

Placental insufficiency is a rare but grave complication that occurs when the placenta is damaged or doesn’t develop properly. It is otherwise known as placental dysfunction or uteroplacental vascular ...

Among babies with severe congenital heart disease (CHD), neurological abnormalities tended to cluster in those who had been exposed to some placental pathology while still in the womb, a single-center ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Low placental growth factor had a significant association with early-onset preeclampsia for women with sickle ...

The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother’s womb. The placenta, or afterbirth, is considered sacred by some cultures, ...

In a recent study posted to bioRxiv*, researchers explored the pathogenic mechanisms of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in pregnancy using digital spatial profiling of ...

If the development of blood vessels in the placenta is impaired, fetal growth retardation may result. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of ...