{"id":5585,"date":"2020-04-15T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2020-04-15T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:36:18","slug":"the-effects-of-inflammatory-bowel-disease-on-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/the-effects-of-inflammatory-bowel-disease-on-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"The effects of inflammatory bowel disease on pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)–including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis–often affects women of childbearing age. A study published in\u00a0<\/strong>Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0compared the health of pregnant and non-pregnant women with IBD.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study included 2,058 Korean women with IBD who became pregnant between 2007 and 2016 and 20,580 women of similar age who did not have IBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, women with IBD did well during pregnancy; however, they had higher rates of Caesarean section and intrauterine growth retardation (low birth weight babies) than women without IBD. Of the patients who had Crohn’s disease, those with quiescent-to-mild disease did as well as women without IBD; however, women with Crohn’s disease that was not mild-to-moderate had a higher rate of miscarriage and almost a 3-fold higher rate of intrauterine growth retardation than women without IBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Previous studies could be easily biased since considerable numbers of pregnant women with IBD with quiescent or mild activity were likely to be excluded. We overcame this limitation by using a nationwide database covering 98% of the 52 million citizens of an entire nation,” said corresponding author Bo-In Lee, MD, PhD, of The Catholic University of Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of the patients who had Crohn’s disease, those with quiescent-to-mild disease did as well as women without IBD; however, women with Crohn’s disease that was not mild-to-moderate had a higher rate of miscarriage and almost a 3-fold higher rate of intrauterine growth retardation than women without IBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2338,1661,804,2210],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-inflammatory-bowel-disease","tag-parenthood","tag-pregnancy","tag-ulcerative-colitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}