Fetal heart rate responses to maternal sleep-disordered breathing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal sleep-disordered breathing is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and is considered to be deleterious to the developing fetus. Maternal obesity potentiates sleep-disordered breathing, which, in turn, may contribute to the effect of maternal obesity on adverse fetal outcomes. However, only a few empirical studies have evaluated the contemporaneous effects of maternal sleep-disordered breathing events on fetal well-being. These events include apnea and hypopnea with accompanying desaturations in oxyhemoglobin.

Objective

This study aimed to reconcile contradictory findings on the associations between maternal apnea or hypopnea events and clinical indicators of fetal compromise. It also sought to broaden the knowledge base by examining the fetal heart

SUBMITTER: DiPietro JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10050230 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature