parous


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par·ous

 (păr′əs, pâr′-)
adj.
Having given birth one or more times.
[From -parous.]
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Adj.1.parous - having given birth to one or more viable children
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In an analysis of a subset of the cohort (75,558 women with 9,110 cases) that adjusted for adult weight gain, the association between parity and risk for diabetes became nonsignificant, and parous women with fewer than five term pregnancies did not have an increased diabetes risk when breastfeeding was done for at least three months per child.
Adult Weight Gain Likely Explains Link Between Parity, T2DM Risk; Risk for diabetes among postmenopausal women can be reduced by preventing adult weight gain
This is probably due to presence of pre-existing anaemia and less contractile uterine muscular tissue in multi parous women as mentioned in Dutta D C 2004.
UTEROVAGINAL PACKING WITH ROLLED GAUZE IN POST-PARTUM HAEMORRHAGE, A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN MALDA MEDICAL COLLEGE, WEST BENGAL
The chances for a parous woman for developing GDM inflate from 2% to 21% when age changes from 20 years to 40.
TO MEASURE THE FREQUENCY OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS IN PATIENTS WITH RAISED SERUM URIC ACID LEVEL IN FIRST TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY
The findings show that Liletta is highly effective and safe over 6 years of use in both nulliparous and parous women, and in both nonobese and obese women, Dr.
Liletta IUD remains effective and safe for up to 6 years, study shows
In 2014, among the total of 133 patients in the parous group, 91 patients (68.4%) started with Misoprostol as management of preference and 42 patients (31.6%) preferred D&C.
Trends of Patients' Preferences in the Management of First and Early Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss Towards the Choice of Medical or Surgical Termination of Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Center in Oman
It showed that parous cases (96.0% and 89.3%) predominate the nulliparous cases (4.0% and 10.7%).
Association and implications in triple negative and triple positive breast cancer: Relationship with sociodemographic and reproductive factors in Pakistan
(3) In the prospective Nurses' Health Study, among parous women, each additional year of breastfeeding decreased the risk of type 2 diabetes by 15% compared with women who did not breastfeed.
Maternal health benefits of breastfeeding
A few other studies demonstrated associations in parous women or pooled samples of both parous and nulliparous women (Bach et al.
Conditioning on Parity in Studies of Perfluoroalkyl Acids and Time to Pregnancy: An Example from the Danish National Birth Cohort
Majority of the cases were parous women, whereas 6 (9.3%) women were nulliparous.
Role of ormeloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator in heavy menstrual bleeding (abnormal uterine bleeding)
Development was divided into 1 parous and 3 nulliparous stages.
Food quality influences ovarian development in Scyphophorus acupunctatus (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae)
Half of the women were parous. There was no difference in mean peak IAP when accounting for age.
Intraabdominal pressure in women during CrossFit exercises and the effect of age and parity
Characteristics Primiparous women 227 (94.6) Parous women 13 (5.4) Age 23 [+ or -] 3.8 Gestational age 39 [+ or -] 1.6 Spontaneous vaginal birth 231 (96.3) Operative vaginal birth 9 (3.8) OASIS 33 (13.8) Birthweight 3157 [+ or -] 453 Length of episiotomy 27.6 [+ or -] 7.2 Distance from midline 5.1 [+ or -] 5.1 Episiotomy suture angle 31.7 [+ or -] 14.0 Categorical variables are presented in n/240 (%), and continuous Variables are presented in mean [+ or -] SD.
Evaluation of Accuracy of Episiotomy Incision in a Governmental Maternity Unit in Palestine: An Observational Study

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