 Preconception Care
"Preconception Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces a woman's reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. Preconception care programs may be designed to include the male partner in providing counseling and educational information in preparation for fatherhood, such as genetic counseling and testing, financial and family planning, etc. This concept is different from PRENATAL CARE, which occurs during pregnancy.
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D016742
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.775 N02.421.143.620.620 N02.421.585.775 N02.421.920.660
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Preconception Care" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Preconception Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Preconception Care" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Moutos CP, Ly P, Moutos DM, Clark SM. Pregnancy After 40: Recommendations for Counseling, Evaluation, and Management From Preconception to Delivery. Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2022 Feb; 77(2):111-121.
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Castillo-Castrejon M, Yang IV, Davidson EJ, Borengasser SJ, Jambal P, Westcott J, Kemp JF, Garces A, Ali SA, Saleem S, Goldenberg RL, Figueroa L, Hambidge KM, Krebs NF, Powell TL. Preconceptional Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplementation in 2 Low-Resource Countries Results in Distinctly Different IGF-1/mTOR Placental Responses. J Nutr. 2021 03 11; 151(3):556-569.
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Krebs NF, Hambidge KM, Westcott JL, Garc?s AL, Figueroa L, Tsefu AK, Lokangaka AL, Goudar SS, Dhaded SM, Saleem S, Ali SA, Bose CL, Derman RJ, Goldenberg RL, Thorsten VR, Sridhar A, Chowdhury D, Das A. Growth from Birth Through Six Months for Infants of Mothers in the "Women First" Preconception Maternal Nutrition Trial. J Pediatr. 2021 02; 229:199-206.e4.
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Dhaded SM, Hambidge KM, Ali SA, Somannavar M, Saleem S, Pasha O, Khan U, Herekar V, Vernekar S, Kumar S Y, Westcott JE, Thorsten VR, Sridhar A, Das A, McClure E, Derman RJ, Goldenberg RL, Koso-Thomas M, Goudar SS, Krebs NF. Preconception nutrition intervention improved birth length and reduced stunting and wasting in newborns in South Asia: The Women First Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS One. 2020; 15(1):e0218960.
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Hambidge KM, Bann CM, McClure EM, Westcott JE, Garc?s A, Figueroa L, Goudar SS, Dhaded SM, Pasha O, Ali SA, Derman RJ, Goldenberg RL, Koso-Thomas M, Somannavar MS, Herekar V, Khan U, Krebs NF. Maternal Characteristics Affect Fetal Growth Response in the Women First Preconception Nutrition Trial. Nutrients. 2019 Oct 21; 11(10).
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Hambidge KM, Westcott JE, Garc?s A, Figueroa L, Goudar SS, Dhaded SM, Pasha O, Ali SA, Tshefu A, Lokangaka A, Derman RJ, Goldenberg RL, Bose CL, Bauserman M, Koso-Thomas M, Thorsten VR, Sridhar A, Stolka K, Das A, McClure EM, Krebs NF. A multicountry randomized controlled trial of comprehensive maternal nutrition supplementation initiated before conception: the Women First trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 02 01; 109(2):457-469.
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McCabe JE, Katon JG, Ma E, Fortney JC, Grote NK, Zephyrin LC, Callegari LS. Preconception Health Risk Factors in Women with and without a History of Military Service. Womens Health Issues. 2018 Nov - Dec; 28(6):539-545.
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Borengasser SJ, Baker PR, Kerns ME, Miller LV, Palacios AP, Kemp JF, Westcott JE, Morrison SD, Hernandez TL, Garces A, Figueroa L, Friedman JE, Hambidge KM, Krebs NF. Preconception Micronutrient Supplementation Reduced Circulating Branched Chain Amino Acids at 12 Weeks Gestation in an Open Trial of Guatemalan Women Who Are Overweight or Obese. Nutrients. 2018 Sep 11; 10(9).
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