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Mothers who keep a Mediterranean diet while pregnant are less likely to give birth to small-for-gestational age (SGA) infants, according to a recent study.

Patients with early-stage cervical usual-type adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma who undergo minimally invasive radical hysterectomy (RH) appear to have comparable survival outcomes as their counterparts who receive open RH, according to a study.

Early time-restricted eating (eTRE), a form of intermittent fasting that includes a shortened eating window within 8 hours early in the day, was associated with a greater weight loss among adults with obesity than eating over a window of ≥12 hours, according to a recent study.

In postmenopausal women, obesity with sarcopenia seems to have a greater effect on the development of knee osteoarthritis (OA) than obesity alone, a recent study has found.

A large systematic review and meta-analysis of women undergoing assisted reproduction has shown that the use of short gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist protocols, compared with long GnRH agonist protocols, during controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) may reduce the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) while having no major impact on live birth rates. 

The presence of liver cirrhosis is detrimental in pregnant women, being associated with elevated risks of maternal mortality as well as obstetric and foetal complications, a study has found.