Health of Father-to-Be Linked to Pregnancy Loss Risk
A retrospective study that looked at pregnancies between 2009 and 2016 published December 18, 2020, in Human Reproduction found that if a father-to-be has three or more medical conditions that are part of metabolic syndrome: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, the risk for losing a pregnancy was 27 percent compared with 10 percent for men who had no medical conditions. RELATED: There’s a Link Between Paternal Health and Pregnancy Loss “Preconception counseling, things like prenatal vitamins and living a healthy lifestyle, has only focused on women. This is the f...