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New Recommendations on the Management of Asthma in Pregnant Women SAN DIEGO -- May 1, 2009 -- Pregnant women with asthma should actively manage their asthma in order to optimise the health of mother and the baby, according to new management recommendations published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The report provides recommendations designed to help clinicians who care for pregnant asthmatic women, including asthma assessment, management of triggering factors, medication management, treatment of asthma attacks, obstetric management, and patient education. "Though studies suggest asthma during pregnancy can increase health risks for mom and baby, our research shows that women who manage their asthma can have as healthy a pregnancy as women who don't have asthma," said lead author Michael Schatz, MD, Allergy Department, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Diego, California. "Many studies suggest that asthma can increase the risk of pregnancy complications, including preeclampsia, low birth-weight babies or preterm birth, however, women with well-controlled asthma in pregnancy generally have good pregnancy outcomes." The recommendations are based to a large degree on a 12-year Kaiser Permanente study of 1,900 pregnant women, and a Maternal Fetal Medicine Units network study of 2,620 women from 16 university hospital centres around the country. Both studies concluded that women with actively managed asthma are just as likely to have healthy pregnancies and babies as women who don't have asthma. "The article does point out that there is still more information that we would like to have about the interrelationships between asthma and pregnancy and the use of asthma medications during pregnancy," said Mitchell Dombrowski, MD, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. "However, using the information we do have allows us to make practical recommendations that studies and clinical experience have shown result in healthy mothers and infants." SOURCE: Kaiser Permanente E-mail this page to a friend or colleague! To print, use this version