ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2025
Associations with the inter-recti distance at gestation week 37: a prospective cohort study among healthy pregnant women.
Article in BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundDuring pregnancy the inter-recti distance (IRD) increases. There is, however, limited knowledge of what factors may contribute to this increase.
objectiveTo investigate associations between sociodemographic characteristics, co-existing health conditions and pregnancy related factors in pregnant women before gestation week 20, and IRD at gestation week 37.
methodsOne hundred and twenty pregnant women provided baseline information on sociodemographic characteristics, co-existing health conditions, and pregnancy-related factors. Baseline IRD (gestation week 16-19) and IRD at gestation week 37 (outcome) were measured with ultrasound 2 cm above the umbilicus. Associations between baseline variables and IRD at gestation week 37 were investigated with bivariable regression analyses, and only variables statistically significantly associated with outcome were included in a multivariable linear regression analysis. The level of significance was set at 0.05.
resultsBivariable associations between baseline variables and IRD at gestation week 37 were statistically significant for BMI, waist circumference, parity, stretch marks (striae), varicose veins and IRD. In the final multivariable linear regression analysis only baseline IRD was significantly associated with IRD at gestation week 37 (B = 0.8, SE = 0.1, 95% CI = 0.6-1.0, P-value < 0.001, R
conclusionNo sociodemographic characteristics, co-existing health conditions or other significant related factors present before gestation week 20 other than baseline IRD was significantly associated with IRD at gestation week 37, with the clinical implication that for each 1 mm increase in baseline IRD, there was an average increase of 0.8 mm in IRD at gestation week 37. Approximately 38% of the variance in IRD at gestation week 37 is explained by baseline IRD and other included variables.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.