Catov

Persistent disparities characterize maternal and child health outcomes in the United States. These disparities, mediated by poverty, racism, and place-based social and structural determinants of health, are the biggest threats to Black maternal health. Recently, community-engaged efforts to improve Black maternal health disparities have moved towards cross-sector approaches that center the lived experiences of Black birthing people. Despite these comprehensive approaches, community members rarely participate throughout the research lifecycle.

Dr. Catov's work around pregnant individuals at risk for high sedentary behavior and adverse pregnancy outcomes points to a sedentary behavior reduction intervention being feasible, acceptable, and may offer a viable alternative.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38605328/

Dr. Janet Catov and her team piloted a novel continuous villous vascular estimation method using immunohistochemistry and a digital pixel count algorithm.

Dr. Janey Catov and her team compared pregnancy and postpartum blood pressure (BP) trajectories among individuals with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy who developed persistent hypertension at 1-year postpartum compared with individuals with normalization of BP.

Read the rest of their paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38073563/

Dr. Janet Catov's team reviewed the relationship between blood pressure and maternal health in pregnancy. They concluded that there is a pressing need for studies with a range of detailed measures of cardiac and vascular structure and function taken before, during, and after pregnancy. This will help inform effective precision medicine prevention and treatment of both placental syndromes and chronic hypertension in women.

Read more about Dr. Catov's findings here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36702879/

We are highlighting the work of Dr. Janet Catov around characteristics of premature myocardial infarction among women with prior adverse pregnancy outcomes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37694271/

Dr. Janet Catov and her team examined the association between prepregnancy obesity (risk factor for inflammation) and histologic placental inflammation (correlated with impaired infant neurodevelopment) and how selection bias may influence the association.

Their findings point to obesity contributing to placental inflammation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37302673/

Faculty members Dr. Jill Demirci and Dr. Janet Catov examined whether breastfeeding/chestfeeding duration or exclusivity are associated with long‐term cardiometabolic health, and whether this relationship differs by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) status

Read more about their findings here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36847057/

In this review article, Dr. Janet Catov and her team describe CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) studies for each reproductive milestone (contraception, PCOS, pregnancy, GDM, preterm delivery, hypertensive disorders of #pregnancy, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, lactation, breast/chest feeding, menopause, reproductive aging, infertility, and hot flashes).

Read more here : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36847077/

This World Prematurity Day, we are highlighting the work of Dr. Catov, who classified early and late preterm births by pathophysiology and risk factors. Findings show that:

• Half of late preterm births had no evident predominant placental pathology 
• -Prepregnancy BMI doubled the probability of maternal vascular malperfusion in early preterm births
• Small-for-gestational-age & severe neonatal morbidity was most prevalent among deliveries w/ placental malperfusion