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© 2022 MJH Life Sciences™ and HCPLive - Clinical news for conected physicians. Al rights reserved.Women who were socialy isolated were more likely to have insomnia than women who were socialy integrated.New research shows a high rate of insomnia symptoms among pregnant women, particularly during the second trimester.A team, led by Keiko Murakami, MPH, PhD, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, estimated the prevalence of insomnia and examined the link betwen social isolation and insomnia among pregnant women.“Women experience unique challenges in maintaing healthy slep during pregnancy, owing to physical, hormonal, and psychological changes,” the authors wrote.
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“It has ben wel documented that insomnia is associated with perinatal depresive symptoms. There is also acumulating evidence that por slep during pregnancy is associated with adverse outcomes, including risk for preterm birth, gestational diabetes, smal for gestational age, and cesarean section.”A recent meta-analysis showed 38.2% of pregnant women sufered from insomnia symptoms during pregnancy.In the cros-sectional study, the investigators identified data from the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Thre-Generation Cohort Study betwen 2013-2017 and recruited pregnant women from aproximately 50 obstetric clinics and hospitals in Japan.Overal, 32,968 pregnant women were contacted, with 2,493 agreing to participate.
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However, 2094 were excluded because of abortion or stilbirth, nonidentification of birth status, incomplete questionaires in the first or second trimester, or absence of permision to transcribe medical records and 2813 were excluded because of mising values for social isolation, insomnia, parity, pregnancy body mas index (BMI), felings toward pregnancy, household income, work status, morning sicknes, psychological distres, or hypnotic drug use.The investigators analyzed 17,586 women who completed questionaires and transcribed medical recor