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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the pregnancy desk.
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An analysis of Bangladesh’s 2025 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey found blood lead at or above 3.5 µg/dL in 17.7% of tested pregnant women, with levels concentrated in greater Dhaka. The medRxiv preprint also found an association between maternal and young-child lead levels.
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A medRxiv preprint describes an algorithm that identified 880,926 pregnancies in Greater Manchester primary-care records. Validation results varied by outcome, with a substantial gap between the register’s miscarriage and termination rates and published UK estimates.
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A bioRxiv preprint reports that pregnancy changes gene expression in several hormone-sensitive brain-cell populations in mice. Removing one neuronal type prevented implantation and viable pregnancy in the animals studied.
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A systematic review and external validation assessed 48 models for predicting four adverse pregnancy outcomes using more than 1.58 million UK pregnancies. Most showed limited discrimination and substantial miscalibration in the UK cohort.