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J J Jacono
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The effects of estrogen, progesterone, and ionized calcium on seizures during the menstrual cycle of epileptic women.
Previous research suggested a positive relationship between levels of serum estrogen and seizures, a negative relationship between levels of serum Ca++ and seizures, and a negative relationship between serum levels of estrogen and Ca++. This study sought a relationship between levels of serum estrogen, ionized calcium, progesterone, and its possible effect on seizures during the menstrual cycle of epileptic women. The negative relationship between serum estrogen and Ca++ was confirmed. However, a study of 15 institutionalized epileptic women, all with a diagnosis of primary generalized epilepsy, demonstrated that fewer seizures occurred in midcycle (when estrogen levels were elevated and Ca++ levels were decreased) than at other stages of the menstrual cycle. This is suggestive of a protective (anticonvulsant) aspect of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal negative feedback system, previously unreported.
Adolescent↗
Teenage pregnancy: a reconsideration.
Teenage pregnancies may be diminishing, but the same cannot be said about the risks for abnormal pregnancy and pregnancy outcome in this group. This study sought to examine rates (by mother's age at time of birth) for a number of variables indicative of pregnancy and birth problems. Specifically, the charts of 1,681 babies, born at a regional mid-northern Ontario Labour and Delivery Unit between 1987 and 1988, were examined. Results suggest that this group of teenaged mothers continue to demonstrate a higher rate of substance, tobacco and dietary abuse during pregnancy than older aged mothers. Further, more babies born to these particular teenaged mothers received low APGAR scores, 5 minutes after birth, than babies born to other aged mothers. The same group (teenaged mothers) gave birth to pre-term babies more often, and had a higher rate of congenital abnormality than did other aged mothers.
Adolescent↗