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Maternal serum heme-oxygenase-1 (HO-1) concentrations in early pregnancy and subsequent risk of gestational diabetes mellitusChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
PLoS ONE 7:e48060. 2012..However, no study has examined the association between HO-1 concentrations and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)...- Short sleep duration, complaints of vital exhaustion and perceived stress are prevalent among pregnant women with mood and anxiety disordersChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 750, Seattle, Washington, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 12:104. 2012..Psychiatric disorders have been associated with sleep disorders in men and non-pregnant women, but little is known about sleep complaints and disorders among pregnant women with psychiatric disorders... - Risk of placental abruption in relation to migraines and headachesSixto E Sanchez
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, and Universidad San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru
BMC Womens Health 10:30. 2010..We assessed risk of placental abruption in relation to maternal history of migraine before and during pregnancy in Peruvian women... - Telomere length, pre-eclampsia, and gestational diabetesEmily W Harville
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
BMC Res Notes 3:113. 2010..Telomere length is a marker of cumulative damage to the cell, and has been associated with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes... 
Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Oxidized LDL) and the risk of preeclampsiaC Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 750, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Physiol Res 55:491-500. 2006..0-32.2). Our results confirm the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. Prospective studies are needed to determine if elevated oxidized LDL concentrations can predict the occurrence of preeclampsia...- Erythrocyte omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and preeclampsia risk in Peruvian womenChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway Suite 4 North, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Arch Gynecol Obstet 274:97-103. 2006..This case-control study was conducted in Lima, Peru, from June 1997 through January 1998 to assess whether alteration in maternal erythrocyte omega-3 (n-3) and omega-6 (n-6) fatty acids was associated with increased risk of preeclampsia... - Glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes risk in relation to sleep duration and snoring during pregnancy: a pilot studyChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
BMC Womens Health 10:17. 2010..Little, however, is known about the consequences of insufficient sleep and poor sleep quality during pregnancy on glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes... - Family history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes in relation to preeclampsia riskChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Suite 449 North Seattle, Wash 98122, USA
Hypertension 41:408-13. 2003..6 to 6.2). Our results are consistent with the thesis that family history of hypertension and diabetes reflects genetic and behavioral factors whereby women may be predisposed to an increased preeclampsia risk... - Association of gestational diabetes mellitus and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particle sizeC Qiu
Swedish Medical Center Center for Perinatal Studies, Seattle, USA
Physiol Res 56:571-8. 2007..The OR of GDM risk was 1.8 (95 % CI: 0.9-3.3) for every 10-A reduction in LDL particle size. Large prospective studies are needed to evaluate the association between smaller LDL particle size in early pregnancy with subsequent GDM risk... 
Preeclampsia risk in relation to maternal mood and anxiety disorders diagnosed before or during early pregnancyChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Hypertens 22:397-402. 2009..We examined the risk of preeclampsia in relation to maternal medical history of mood and anxiety disorders...- Dietary fiber intake in early pregnancy and risk of subsequent preeclampsiaChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Hypertens 21:903-9. 2008..We also evaluated cross-sectional associations of maternal early pregnancy plasma lipid and lipoprotein concentrations with fiber intake... 
Associations of depression and depressive symptoms with preeclampsia: results from a Peruvian case-control studyChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 750, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
BMC Womens Health 7:15. 2007..We examined the relation between depression/depressive symptoms and preeclampsia risk among Peruvian women...- Maternal plasma concentrations of IGF-1, IGFBP-1, and C-peptide in early pregnancy and subsequent risk of gestational diabetes mellitusChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 193:1691-7. 2005..We examined the association between circulating concentrations of IGF-1, IGFBP-1 in early pregnancy and development of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)... - A prospective study of maternal serum C-reactive protein concentrations and risk of preeclampsiaChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Suite 449 North, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Am J Hypertens 17:154-60. 2004..We measured C-reactive protein (CRP), a clinical marker of systemic inflammation, in maternal serum collected at 13 weeks gestation on average, to determine whether elevations precede the clinical manifestation of preeclampsia... - Gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to maternal dietary heme iron and nonheme iron intakeChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 34:1564-9. 2011..We investigated associations of maternal preconceptional and early pregnancy heme and nonheme iron intake with subsequent GDM risk... - Risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to maternal egg and cholesterol intakeChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 1124 Columbia Street, Suite 750, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Am J Epidemiol 173:649-58. 2011..65 (95% CI: 1.48, 4.72), and the odds of GDM increased with increasing cholesterol intake (P for trend=0.021). In conclusion, high egg and cholesterol intakes before and during pregnancy are associated with increased risk of GDM... - A prospective study of maternal serum C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations and risk of gestational diabetes mellitusChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:377-84. 2004..7-fold increased risk of GDM [95% CI 1.6, 8.7] as compared with women with CRP < 5.3 mg/L. Systemic inflammation is associated with an increased risk of GDM, and the association is independent of maternal prepregnancy adiposity... - Oxidative DNA damage in early pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A pilot studyChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Clin Biochem 44:804-8. 2011..To examine the association of maternal early pregnancy oxidative stress with risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)... - Increased maternal plasma leptin in early pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes mellitusChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway Suite 4 North, Seattle WA 98122, USA
Obstet Gynecol 103:519-25. 2004..We examined the association between plasma leptin concentration and GDM risk... - Hepatic lipase gene polymorphism, pre-pregnancy overweight status and risk of preeclampsia among Peruvian womenDaniel A Enquobahrie
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Gynecol Endocrinol 21:211-7. 2005..In this study, we found that LIPC -514TT genotype and overweight status, when occurring together, were associated with a 3-fold increase in risk of preeclampsia among Peruvian women... - Elevated soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, elevated Homocyst(e)inemia, and hypertriglyceridemia in relation to preeclampsia riskSurab Vadachkoria
Center for Perinatal Studies Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Hypertens 19:235-42. 2006..We also evaluated the relationship in the presence and absence of maternal hypertriglyceridemia and hyperhomocystein(e)mia... - Maternal erythrocyte omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and plasma lipid concentrations, are associated with habitual dietary fish consumption in early pregnancyMichelle A Williams
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Clin Biochem 39:1063-70. 2006..We investigated the relationship between selected maternal erythrocyte omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and plasma lipids in early pregnancy and reported habitual fish consumption during the periconceptional period... - A prospective study of early-pregnancy plasma malondialdehyde concentration and risk of preeclampsiaCarole B Rudra
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Clin Biochem 39:722-6. 2006..Preeclampsia is associated with elevated plasma malondialdehyde concentration, but prospective data are scarce. We examined the relation between early-pregnancy plasma malondialdehyde and subsequent preeclampsia risk... - Associations of early pregnancy sleep duration with trimester-specific blood pressures and hypertensive disorders in pregnancyMichelle A Williams
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Sleep 33:1363-71. 2010..We evaluated the influence of maternal self-reported habitual sleep duration during early pregnancy on blood pressure (BP) levels and risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy... - Sleep duration, vital exhaustion and perceived stress among pregnant migraineurs and non-migraineursMichelle A Williams
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 10:72. 2010..Migraine has been associated with sleep disorders in men and non-pregnant women, but little is known about sleep complaints among pregnant migraineurs... - Hyperhomocyst(e)inemia and elevated soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 concentrations are associated with an increased risk of preeclampsiaSurab Vadachkoria
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Gynecol Obstet Invest 58:133-9. 2004..Larger, prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings and to determine the extent to which elevated tHcy and sVCAM-1 together in early pregnancy are predictive of preeclampsia risk... - Familial aggregation of type 2 diabetes and chronic hypertension in women with gestational diabetes mellitusMichelle A Williams
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
J Reprod Med 48:955-62. 2003..To perform a case-control study to assess the extent to which women with a positive parental history of type 2 diabetes and/or chronic hypertension experienced an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)... - Habitual snoring and asthma comorbidity among pregnant womenMichelle A Williams
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
J Asthma 48:91-7. 2011..This comorbidity has not been evaluated among pregnant women. We assessed the habitual snoring-asthma relationship among pregnant women... - Age at menarche, menstrual cycle characteristics and risk of gestational diabetesMichal Dishi
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 93:437-42. 2011..We examined associations of age at menarche and menstrual cycle characteristics with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk... - Global maternal early pregnancy peripheral blood mRNA and miRNA expression profiles according to plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrationsDaniel A Enquobahrie
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 24:1002-12. 2011..We investigated associations of early pregnancy maternal vitamin D concentrations with differential gene expression and post-transcription regulation... - Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) in plasma is associated with preeclampsia risk in Peruvian women with systemic inflammationMartin Muy-Rivera
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98122, USA
Am J Hypertens 17:334-8. 2004..In a case-control study of 100 preeclamptics and 100 controls, we assessed plasma transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) concentrations in relation to preeclampsia risk among Peruvian women with and without systemic inflammation... - Plasma adiponectin concentrations in early pregnancy and subsequent risk of gestational diabetes mellitusMichelle A Williams
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98122, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:2306-11. 2004..Our findings extend the literature to include GDM. Studies designed to examine the effect of dietary and pharmacological mediators of adiponectin concentrations in pregnant and nonpregnant subjects are warranted... - Risk of preterm delivery and other adverse perinatal outcomes in relation to maternal use of psychotropic medications during pregnancyRonit Calderon-Margalit
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 201:579.e1-8. 2009..The purpose of this study was to determine the association of maternal psychotropic medication use during pregnancy with preterm delivery and other adverse perinatal outcomes... - Adipocytokine expression in placentas from pre-eclamptic and chronic hypertensive patientsMargaret Meller
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98122, USA
Gynecol Endocrinol 22:267-73. 2006..Adiponectin receptors remain unstudied in placentas obtained from hypertensive patients... - Risk of preterm delivery and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in relation to maternal co-morbid mood and migraine disorders during pregnancySwee May Cripe
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7236, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 25:116-23. 2011..Pregnant women with a history of migraine may benefit from screening for depression during prenatal care and vigilant monitoring, especially for women with co-morbid mood and migraine disorders... - Early pregnancy lipid concentrations and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitusDaniel A Enquobahrie
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Suite 4 North, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 70:134-42. 2005..e., total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, and low-density lipoprotein) were not evident. Larger prospective studies are needed to confirm our findings and to identify modifiable determinants of pregnancy-associated dyslipidemia... - Association of retinol binding protein 4 with risk of gestational diabetesDejene F Abetew
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 99:48-53. 2013..We investigated association of maternal retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) with risk of gestational diabetes (GDM)... - Early pregnancy peripheral blood gene expression and risk of preterm delivery: a nested case control studyDaniel A Enquobahrie
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 9:56. 2009..Pathophysiologic processes that may lead to PTD start early in pregnancy. We investigated early pregnancy peripheral blood global gene expression and PTD risk... - Associations of asthma with body mass index and adult weight change among reproductive age womenNeway Gessesse Fida
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Asthma 48:701-6. 2011..To evaluate the cross-sectional relationship between asthma and pre-gravid body mass index (BMI), and to assess the risk of adult weight change among women with history of asthma diagnosed in childhood or adulthood, respectively... - Maternal plasma transforming growth factor-beta1 concentrations in preeclamptic and normotensive pregnant Zimbabwean womenDaniel A Enquobahrie
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, and Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle 98122, USA
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 17:343-8. 2005..We evaluated the relationship in the context of maternal systemic inflammation using plasma tumor necrosis factor-a soluble receptor p55 (sTNFp55) as a marker... - Plasma granulysin concentrations and preeclampsia riskChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Biochem 39:1016-21. 2006..Granulysin, a novel biomarker of overall cellular immunity, is secreted by natural killer cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes, which are associated with graft-host-rejection. Plasma granulysin was elevated in Japanese preeclamptic women... - Coffee consumption and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitusKathryn L Adeney
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 86:161-6. 2007..Coffee consumption has been associated with a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. We examined the relationship between coffee consumption and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus [GDM]... - Iron deficiency anemia, cigarette smoking and risk of abruptio placentaeDodie L Arnold
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Obstet Gynaecol Res 35:446-52. 2009..The present study assesses the iron deficiency anemia-abruptio placentae association in pregnant women from the Pacific Northwest... - Changes in placental adipocytokine gene expression associated with gestational diabetes mellitusM Meller
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Physiol Res 55:501-12. 2006..Changes seen in the ligand, but not the receptor, of the leptin pathway in GDM-complicated pregnancies may also apply to the adiponectin pathway, as the ADIPOR1 and 2 mRNAs do not change with GDM diagnosis... - A case-control study of maternal blood mitochondrial DNA copy number and preeclampsia riskChunfang Qiu
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center Seattle Washington, USA
Int J Mol Epidemiol Genet 3:237-44. 2012..86 (95%CI 1.00-3.48). Our findings suggest that maternal mitochondrial dysfunction may contribute to the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. However, replication in prospective studies is needed to further investigate this relationship... - Maternal plasma VEGF, sVEGF-R1, and PlGF concentrations in preeclamptic and normotensive pregnant Zimbabwean womenM Muy-Rivera
Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway (Suite 4 North, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Physiol Res 54:611-22. 2005.... - Body mass index and adult weight gain among reproductive age women with migraineMichelle Vo
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Headache 51:559-69. 2011..To evaluate the cross-sectional relationship between migraine and pregravid obesity; and to assess the risk of adult weight gain among women with history of a pediatric diagnosis of migraine... - A case-control study of oxidized low density lipoproteins and preeclampsia riskSixto E Sanchez
Dos de Mayo Hospital, Lima, Peru
Gynecol Endocrinol 21:193-9. 2005..6-fold increased preeclampsia risk (95% CI 2.0-45.6). Elevated Ox-LDL, particularly in conjunction with elevated TG, appears to be a risk factor of preeclampsia... - Headaches and migraines are associated with an increased risk of preeclampsia in Peruvian womenSixto E Sanchez
Health Direction V Lima City Jr Antonio Raymondi 220, La Victoria, Lima, Peru
Am J Hypertens 21:360-4. 2008..We assessed the risk for preeclampsia in relation to the maternal history of migraine before and during pregnancy in Peruvian women... - Risk factors of abruptio placentae among Peruvian womenSixto E Sanchez
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, Lima, Peru
Am J Obstet Gynecol 194:225-30. 2006..CONCLUSION: At present, the constellation of abruptio placentae risk factors do not provide clinically meaningful opportunities for identifying high-risk patients... - Intimate partner violence (IPV) and preeclampsia among Peruvian womenSixto E Sanchez
Health Direction V Lima City, Jr Antonio Raymondi 220, La Victoria, Lima, Peru
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 137:50-5. 2008..We assessed the relation between IPV and risk of preeclampsia among Peruvian women... - Cystatin C and preeclampsia: a case control studyNora Franceschini
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 3628, USA
Ren Fail 30:89-95. 2008..Increased plasma levels of cystatin C were independently associated with preeclampsia. Further studies are required to assess the role of cystatin C levels in preeclampsia severity and maternal and fetal outcomes... - Maternal serum C-reactive protein concentrations in early pregnancy and subsequent risk of preterm deliveryVitool Lohsoonthorn
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Clin Biochem 40:330-5. 2007..To examine the relation between maternal early pregnancy serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and preterm delivery (PTD)...