January 18, 2021
The Straits Times file
The risk of miscarriage might not only depend on a mother’s health but the father-to-be as well.
A recent study from the journal Human Reproduction looks further into the link between a father’s health and the possibility of miscarriage as well as stillbirth.
Dads may want to join in on the new healthy lifestyle mummies are adapting to during pregnancy for it has been found that medical conditions among fathers could lead to pregnancy loss.
The lead of the study Associate Professor Michael Eisenberg went to explain that, “It’s been known for some time that the health of mothers has an impact on the developing foetus and events at the time of birth. This is the first study to suggest that pregnancies sired by men with increasing numbers of medical conditions are at higher risk of ending in miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth.”
Expecting Dads Health Linked to Risk for Pregnancy Loss by Iswarya on December 18, 2020 at 11:05 AM
Human Reproduction.
More than a quarter of pregnancies might be ectopic or end in miscarriage or stillbirth if the father-to-be is unhealthy and has three or more medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol levels.
In a retrospective study of nearly a million pregnancies between 2009 and 2016 in the US, researchers found that if the father was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, including these medical conditions, there was an increased risk of the mother losing the pregnancy.
Compared to men who had none of the metabolic syndrome components, the risk of pregnancy loss increased by 10%, 15%, and 19%, respectively, for men with one, two, or three or more components.