The clinical content of preconception care: women with chronic medical conditions.
This article reviews the medical conditions that are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes for women and their offspring. We also present the degree to which specific preconception interventions and treatments can impact the effects of the condition on birth outcomes. Because avoiding, delaying, or achieving optimal timing of a pregnancy is often an important component of the preconception care of women with medical conditions, contraceptive considerations particular to the medical conditions are also presented.
Dunlop
Anne L
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Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. amlang@emory.edu
Jack
Brian W
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Bottalico
Joseph N
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Lu
Michael C
MC
James
Andra
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Shellhaas
Cynthia S
CS
Hallstrom
Lynne Haygood-Kane
LH
Solomon
Benjamin D
BD
Feero
W Gregory
WG
Menard
M Kathryn
MK
Prasad
Mona R
MR
D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016742:Preconception Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care