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UrduStudy finds that women with normal blood pressure during pregnancy are twice as likely to be hospitalized with cardiovascular disease within a year after having twins, than women who have a single pregnancy. The risk is eight times higher in mothers of twins who had high blood pressure conditions during pregnancy.
Tag: Twins
Twin Studies Expert Nancy Segal Featured in Netflix Documentary ‘The Accidental Twins’
Nancy Segal, director of the Twin Studies Center at Cal State Fullerton, is featured in the 2024 subtitled documentary “The Accidental Twins.”
Concussions Early in Life Tied to Late Life Cognitive Decline
A study of twins shows that having a concussion early in life is tied to having lower scores on tests of thinking and memory skills decades later as well as having more rapid decline in those scores than twins who did not have a concussion, or traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study is published in the September 6, 2023, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
TAPS Awareness Day: The spontaneous blood cell imbalance that can be sudden and deadly in monochorionic twins
At 31 weeks and 5 days pregnant with identical twins, Amberlyn Smith went to her bi-weekly ultrasound feeling confident. Just two weeks prior, both of the twins had grown appropriately and screening tests came back normal. But that day, Dec. 23, there was a clear discrepancy in their size, as well as a notable abnormality in their blood flow. Smith was immediately sent to see an intervention specialist with UTHealth at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, where she emergently delivered the twins the next morning, on Christmas Eve.
Heart defects increase four-fold in IVF twins
Having twins from IVF or other related procedures quadruples the chance that a baby may have congenital heart problems.
Study Seeks to Guide Maternal Weight Gain in Twin Pregnancies
New research led by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and published today in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology is beginning to establish evidence-based guidelines for maternal weight gain while pregnant with twins.