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Dr. Fejzo @drfejzo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This devastating story was published today people.com/pregnant-wom... , but there is hope because NGMBio announced last week that the first HG patient has been treated with a new drug based, in part, on my work www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

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Pregnant Woman, 26, Dies by Suicide After Extreme Morning Sickness Leaves Her Bedridden with 'No Relief'

Susan Cronshaw says her daughter Jess struggled with hyperemesis gravidarum so severely that it led to the loss of her life and that of her 4-day-old baby.

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Aimee Brecht-Doscher @hgmomdoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Over 20% of maternal deaths estimated to be nutrition related based on typical nutrition/diets. And yet in all regions there are patients with HG who eat less than the typical diet and we tell them that it doesn’t matter the baby will take what it needs. #MedSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Global burden of maternal disorders attributable to malnutrition from 1990 to 2019 and predictions to 2035: worsening or improving?

Maternal malnutrition is a major global public health problem that can lead to serious maternal diseases. This study aimed to analyze and predict the spatio-temporal trends in the burden of maternal d...

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Dr. Fejzo @drfejzo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Thought I was done for the year when this happened! What an incredible honor to speak at the White House! Delighted to continue the momentum for advancing women’s health research with all these amazing women. Thank you @flotus.bsky.social and @mariashriver.bsky.social for spearheading the program!

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Dr. Fejzo @drfejzo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Sharing our preprint! We performed a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of nine genome-wide association studies on severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy including 10,974 cases and 461,461 controls across European, Asian, African, and Latino ancestries.

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Multi-ancestry GWAS of severe pregnancy nausea and vomiting identifies risk loci associated with appetite, insulin signaling, and brain plasticity

While most pregnancies are affected by nausea and vomiting, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is at the severe end of the clinical spectrum and is associated with dehydration, undernutrition, and adverse ma...

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