[The general practitioner and screening reproductive age women].
All women in age of procreation might benefit of well established screening tests. The latter being conduct to identify, in this apparently healthy population, diseased or carrier women of an affection. This screening program might be realised by a general practitioner and must be encouraged. Actually, in Belgium, there is no national screening program for this population. Recommendations might be proposed for all screening tests that can be realised in preconceptual period. These concern screening of diseases which affect all women like cervical cancer, which might influence the pregnancy or infant outcome, like an infection or an hereditary disease, or which could be adversely affected by the pregnancy, like diabetes.
Gulbis
B
B
Service de Chimie Médicale, Hôpital Erasme.
Barlow
P
P
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001530:Belgium; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000175:diagnosis; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection; D010819:Physician's Role; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012098:Reproduction; D016387:Women's Health