SGA Births in HIV-Positive Women
Researchers in the US found that in HIV-positive women who gave birth to infants that weighed under the 10th percentile, the use of ARTs during pregnancy was not associated with smaller size. Instead, the HIV disease itself was mostly likely to influence growth after adjusting for disease severity, medications, and socioeconomic factors.
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Aaron E, Bonacquisti A, Mathew L, Alleyne G, Bamford LP, Culhane JE. Small-for-gestational-age births in pregnant women with HIV, due to severity of HIV disease, not antiretroviral therapy. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2012;2012:135030. Epub 2012 Jun 20.
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Citation:
Aaron E, Bonacquisti A, Mathew L, Alleyne G, Bamford LP, Culhane JE. Small-for-gestational-age births in pregnant women with HIV, due to severity of HIV disease, not antiretroviral therapy. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2012;2012:135030. Epub 2012 Jun 20.
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