{"id":379,"date":"2010-05-18T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2011-04-24T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T01:21:00","slug":"low-umbilical-cord-ph-levels-linked-to-brain-damage-cerebral-palsy-in-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/low-umbilical-cord-ph-levels-linked-to-brain-damage-cerebral-palsy-in-newborns.html","title":{"rendered":"Low Umbilical Cord pH Levels Linked To Brain Damage, Cerebral Palsy In Newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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New research\u00a0has found that babies who are born with high\u00a0acidity\u00a0in their umbilical cords appear to be at a higher risk for\u00a0cerebral palsy, brain damage\u00a0and infant death.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/lifestyle\/content\/healthday\/639106.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

The study’s findings, out of research done at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital in England,\u00a0were reported online by the journal BMJ.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0When a baby doesn’t receive adequate oxygen during delivery, its umbilical cord blood pH declines. This condition, called hypoxia, is the most common cause of brain damage, mainly among\u00a0premature and very tiny babies, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.\u00a0But there had not been any\u00a0direct connection established between a low pH reading in umbilical cord blood and complications like brain damage.<\/p>\r\n

For this research, Dr. Gemma\u00a0Malin combed through and combined the results of\u00a051 studies regarding low-umbilical cord pH, studies that covered\u00a0nearly 500,000 children. The results of the studies were similar despite the wide variety\u00a0of ways they were conducted, namely that there was a consistent and strong link between pH levels and infant death, cerebral palsy and brain damage.\u00a0http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/booster_shots\/2010\/05\/a-new-predictor-of-newborn-health-cord-blood-ph.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

An editorial<\/a>\u00a0was published along with the study in the BMJ, and it urged careful surveillance of infants that have\u00a0low umbilical cord pH. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

“Malin and colleagues\u2019 systematic review of <\/sup>observational data suggests that a strong association exists <\/sup>between low umbilical artery pH at birth and major adverse outcomes <\/sup>including death, hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (usually manifesting <\/sup>as neonatal seizures), potentially serious brain abnormalities <\/sup>identified by imaging (periventricular leucomalacia or intraventricular <\/sup>haemorrhage), and cerebral palsy,” the editorial said.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/sup>“Ultimately, given the findings of this study, we should aim <\/sup>to reduce the number of babies born with a low cord pH, without <\/sup>increasing unnecessary obstetric intervention. Hopefully this <\/sup>can be achieved by more hands-on input to labour ward care by <\/sup>fully trained obstetric specialists for some time have thought that acidity of the blood\u00a0was linked to potential problems with newborns, but only the new study found a\u00a0definitive connection between pH levels and adverse conditions such as brain damage.”<\/p>\r\n

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New research\u00a0has found that babies who are born with high\u00a0acidity\u00a0in their umbilical cords appear to be at a higher risk for\u00a0cerebral palsy, brain damage\u00a0and infant death. \u00a0http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/lifestyle\/content\/healthday\/639106.html The study’s findings, out of research done at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital in England,\u00a0were reported online by the journal BMJ.\u00a0 \u00a0When a baby doesn’t receive adequate oxygen during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[389,421,8,420,422],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-damage","tag-brain-damage-attorney","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-ph-levels-and-cerebral-palsy","tag-ph-levels-and-infant-brain-damage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}