Exercise guidelines for pregnant women.
Despite remarkable improvements in high technologies and an increase in the number of studies related to exercise for pregnant women, the guidelines for maternal exercise remain contradictory. The effects of exercise in pregnant women and cardiovascular modifications due to pregnancy, and effects of maternal exercise on the fetal environment, including uterine and umbilical hemodynamic changes, are reviewed. Suggested future directions in this area of nursing science are discussed.
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University of Michigan, School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482.
D001831:Body Temperature; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014470:Umbilical Cord / Q000098:blood supply; D014599:Uterus / Q000098:blood supply
D010100:Oxygen