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Articles by Alan M. Peaceman
Pregnancy after age 35: What are the real risks?
An excerpt from Understanding High-Risk Pregnancy: A Patient’s Guide to Prenatal Complications. If you are 35 or older and either pregnant or thinking about having a baby, you are not alone. The average age for women having babies in this country and around the developed world has increased significantly over the past two decades, and the percentage of women having children after age 35 has increased as well.
Your nervous system does not need another hack. It needs a walk.
As physicians, we are trained to prescribe, to fix, to optimize. Our patients expect it, and frankly, so do we. I built a career around lipid panels, trial data, and prescriptions meant to shave percentage points off cardiovascular risk. But lately, I find myself offering something far less high-tech and far more radical: a walk. Walking is slow. Impractical. Rarely the efficient choice. Which is exactly why it matters.
High-risk pregnancy: Who should manage your care?
An excerpt from Understanding High-Risk Pregnancy: A Patient’s Guide to Prenatal Complications. What is a high-risk pregnancy? You may find it strange that there is no single accepted definition of what constitutes a high-risk pregnancy. Probably more than half of women will have at least one risk factor that could be an issue, but for most of these women it will minimally affect their pregnancy care or the outcome.
How to help your patients control gestational weight gain
Dr. Peaceman encourages the counseling of patients on appropriate gestational weight gain and provides key strategies for doing just that OBG Manag. 2016;28(5). Alan M. Peaceman, MDDr. Peaceman is Professor and Chief, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. The author reports no financial relationships relevant to this article.
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