OB GYN To Go #22 Non-spontaneous Late Preterm Birth: etiology and outcomes

Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Wasson discuss this important paper about the outcomes of patients delivered prior to 37 weeks, and the significant morbidity risk it poses. Over half of the babies delivered in this retrospective cohort study were delivered for non-evidence based reasons, leading to a higher rate of NICU admissions for these late pre-term birth babies.

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OB GYN To Go # 20 Committee Opinion #53 Tobacco Use and Women's Health

In this week's show, we discuss the Committee opinion about Tobacco use, and its continued adverse impact on women's health. Tobacco is no longer limited to cigarettes, but people are consuming tobacco and nicotine in other formats, ranging from gels to e-cigarettes, hookas, pouches, and more. The same adverse impacts to health remain regardless of the supposedly healthier ways to "smoke", and surprisingly, despite many efforts to reduce or eliminate smoking all together, tobacco use seems to remain at a relatively constant level. We discuss ways to counsel patients and offer support in their efforts to reduce and eliminate tobacco use, despite many patients worries about weight gain if they cease this habit.

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Familial Inheritance of Mullerian Anomolies

In this show, Dr. Adrian Queseda and Dr. Matthew K. Hoffman discuss the Quantification of the Familial Contribution to Mullerian Anomolies, ( A. Hammoud et. al., Obstet Gynecol 2008, 111:378-384). This paper was published in Obstetrics and Gynecology in February, 2008 and reveals level II evidence of an increased risk of inheritance of mullerian anomilies, based on data from the Utah Population Database.

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