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Guidance and Assessment of Preconception Risk

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Preconception care is a wide term which refers to the process of meeting with a woman and her partner, identifying risks to a woman’s health, fertility, and pregnancy outcome as they relate to a woman becoming pregnant. The goals of preconception care are to identify potential the risks to the mother, fetus, and pregnancy; educate women about these risks; provide options for intervention and management for risk reduction; advise on reproductive alternatives, and initiate interventions to provide optimum maternal, fetal, and pregnancy outcomes. The goals of preconception health care are to provide guidance; identify, address, and reduce potential risks; and provide an informed consent process to understand their risks prior to pregnancy. In addition, preconception care allows for counseling about delaying pregnancy until risks have been reduced.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, NY, USA

    Amos Grunebaum & Joachim Dudenhausen

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zucker School of Medicine of Hofstra/Northwell, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Frank A. Chervenak

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    Renato Augusto Moreira de Sá

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Grunebaum, A., Dudenhausen, J., Chervenak, F.A. (2022). Guidance and Assessment of Preconception Risk. In: Moreira de Sá, R.A., Fonseca, E.B.d. (eds) Perinatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83434-0_3

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