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Women's Health
Preventive bed rest during pregnancy may be more harmful than helpful
March 15th, 2004
Prescribed bed rest during pregnancy may cause a myriad of problems for mothers as well as babies with lower than normal birth weights, study results suggest. This news is alarming considering antepartum bed rest is prescribed for more than 700,000 pregnant women in the United States each year in order to prevent early labor and other pregnancy complications. Although there has been a lack of clinical evidence that bed rest is indeed effective, obstetricians continue to prescribe it. The study, published in the journal Biological Research For Nursing and led by Judith A. Maloni of the Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University...
Source: OBGYN & Reproduction Week (2004-03-15)
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