Disease relevance of Gravidity

• PURPOSE: To evaluate the relationships among gravidity, obesity, and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Pima Indian women [1].
• Use of bed nets, use of chloroquine prophylaxis during pregnancy, presence of malaria episodes during pregnancy, gravidity, and age were not associated with the acquisition of parasitemia during follow-up [2].
• Average daily consumption of 10 g of ethanol (about one drink) in the week prior to recognition of pregnancy is related to a decrease in infant birth weight of 225 g, after adjustment for gestational age, sex of child, and maternal age, weight, height, pregnancy weight gain, social class, gravidity, and parity [3].
• There was a weak association between thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (nmol/ml) and endometriosis, after adjusting for age, body mass index, current smoking, hormone use in the past 12 months, gravidity, serum vitamin E, serum estradiol, and total serum lipids (beta = 1.18; 95% CI-0.04, 2.39) [4].
• The previable and viable groups did not differ with respect to mean age, gravidity, parity, presenting symptoms, accuracy of sonographic diagnosis in identifying the molar component, uterine size at evacuation, or the presence of preeclampsia and theca lutein cysts [5].

High impact information on Gravidity

• Fetal loss rates were increased among couples sharing HLA-B as compared with couples not sharing HLA-B (.23 vs. .12, respectively; P = .041, adjusted for age, gravidity, and kinship) [6].
• Gravidity and tubal disease also had marginal effects on the time course of inhibin responses, but not on overall mean inhibin levels or estradiol responses [7].
• In order to determine the normal periprandial blood glucose values during gravidity, we studied 17 normal pregnant women, near term of gestation, in their homes using test strips and reflectometers . Results show an initial fasting level not higher than 80 mg/dl and not lower than 45 mg/dl [8].
• The number of previous pregnancies (gravidity) was associated with stronger maternal responses to fetal alloantigens, as shown by lymphoproliferation (Kendall tau=0.3, P=0.04) and IFN-gamma (tau=0.3, P=0.04) synthesis, but did not affect fetal responses to the various stimuli [9].
• Progesterone and gravidity differentially regulate expression of extracellular matrix components in the pregnant rat myometrium [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Gravidity

• No differences were noted with respect to gestational age at time of rupture, maternal age, gravidity, parity, race, tocolytic use, steroid use, prophylactic antibiotics, or sexually transmitted diseases [11].
• Administration of ethylnitrosourea (ENU) to pregnant Swiss mice on the 17th day of gravidity results in the formation of lymphoblastoid leukemias from the beginning of the 12th week after birth, 90% of the animals dying within 25 weeks [12].

Biological context of Gravidity

• The mean maternal age was 28.7 +/- 6.3 years, with median gravidity of 2 (range, 1-12) and parity 1 (range, 0-8) [13].
• Following ovulation, estradiol fell to non-reproductive levels while progesterone remained elevated during the month-long period of gravidity [14].

Anatomical context of Gravidity

• To control for embryo quality, IVF patient characteristics were matched to those of the oocyte donors with regard to age and previous gravidity [15].
• The following parameters were determined in colostrum taken from sows after completed delivery: specific gravidity; total proteins, lysozyme activity, IgG level [16].
• The first immunopositive neuroblasts occurred in the 15th week of gravidity, whereas an increasing number of structures in the medulla oblongata and cerebellum showed ODC immunoreactivity in weeks 18-24 of gravidity [17].

Associations of Gravidity with chemical compounds

• Patients who used cocaine were older and of higher gravidity and parity [18].
• PGE2 is at least as effective as oxytocin regardless of Bishop score or gravidity [19].
• Moreover, the comparison of the steroid pattern in the two groups showed that gravidity was characterized by a marked increase of F and E but not of B and DOC levels [20].
• RESULTS: There was no difference in mean age at delivery (P =.47), parity (P =.84), or gravidity (P =.78) between depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and OC users [21].
• In addition to demographic data on age, gravidity, parity, and previous abortions, we determined progesterone, human chorionic gonadotropin and prostaglandin plasma levels [22].

Gene context of Gravidity

• CA-125 levels were independent of age, gravidity, weeks of amenorrhea, or presence of thecal-luteal cysts [23].
• Patients in both groups were similar with respect to mean gravidity, parity, and menopausal status, although patients in the Novak group were older (43.4 vs 39.1 years, p = 0.005) [24].
• The relative risk of hepatocellular carcinoma was elevated significantly in women of high gravidity, an association that was attributable to the effects of full-term pregnancies [25].
• We have shown that gravidity and parity is associated with a small but progressive decrease in fetal NT and a small but progressive increase in free beta-hCG and PAPP-A [26].
• Women with endometriosis and tubal inflammatory disease did not have a significantly lower mean gravidity than did those with healthy tubes [27].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Gravidity

• RESULTS: Cocaine was the best predictor of increased incidence of abortions, higher maternal gravidity, and poorer prenatal care [28].

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