• Birthweight of the subsequent singleton pregnancy following a first twin or singleton pregnancy 

      Basnet, Prativa; Skjaerven, Rolv; Harmon, Quaker E.; Wilcox, Allen J.; Klungsøyr, Kari; Sørbye, Linn Marie; Morken, Nils-Halvdan; Kvalvik, Liv Grimstvedt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Introduction Birthweight is an important pregnancy indicator strongly associated with infant, child, and later adult life health. Previous studies have found that second-born babies are, on average, heavier than first-born ...
    • Do Genetic Variants Modify the Effect of Smoking on Risk of Preeclampsia in Pregnancy? 

      Bauer, Anna E.; Avery, Christy L.; Shi, Min; Weinberg, Clarice R.; Olshan, Andrew F.; Harmon, Quaker E.; Luo, Jingchun; Yang, Jenny; Manuck, Tracy; Wu, Michael C.; Klungsøyr, Kari; Trogstad, Lill; Magnus, Per Minor; Engel, Stephanie M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Objective: Maternal smoking is associated with as much as a 50% reduced risk of preeclampsia, despite increasing risk of other poor pregnancy outcomes that often co-occur with preeclampsia, such as preterm birth and fetal ...
    • Long-term cardiovascular mortality in women with twin pregnancies by lifetime reproductive history 

      Basnet, Prativa; Skjaerven, Rolv; Sørbye, Linn Marie; Morken, Nils-Halvdan; Klungsøyr, Kari; Singh, Aditi; Mannseth, Janne; Harmon, Quaker E.; Kvalvik, Liv Grimstvedt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Women with one lifetime singleton pregnancy have increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality compared with women who continue reproduction particularly if the pregnancy had complications. Women ...
    • Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in twin- and singleton-born women: An inter-generational cohort study 

      Basnet, Prativa; Skjaerven, Rolv; Harmon, Quaker E.; Sørbye, Linn Marie; Morken, Nils-Halvdan; Singh, Aditi; Klungsøyr, Kari; Kvalvik, Liv Grimstvedt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Objective To compare the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes between twin-born and singleton-born women. We also evaluated whether in utero exposure to pre-eclampsia or preterm delivery affected adverse pregnancy outcomes ...