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Pregnancy Health

Community-Wide Campaigns to Promote the Use of Folic Acid Supplements

Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends community-wide education campaigns to promote the use of folic acid supplements among women of childbearing age on the basis of sufficient evidence that these approaches are effective in increasing the…

Exercise Programs to Prevent Gestational Hypertension

Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends exercise programs for pregnant women to reduce the development of gestational hypertension. Intervention Programs engage women in regular exercise from before their 16th week of pregnancy through birth. Exercise programs…

Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Gestational Diabetes

Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends lifestyle interventions delivered during the first two trimesters of pregnancy to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes. The CPSTF finds Strong evidence of effectiveness for lifestyle interventions that provide supervised…

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