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MG is a disorder caused by proteins in the blood called “antibodies.” More information about MG can be found on the next page. MG is common in women who are in their child-bearing years. It is important to evaluate the effects that the disease may have on pregnancy, delivery, and the newborn.### Whom did the researchers include in the study? In this issue of Neurology , Hoff et al. evaluated women with and without MG during pregnancy. They studied the occurrence of complications during delivery in these women and the health of their babies.1 The data for the study came from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway between 1967 and 2000. The authors identified 127 births by 79 MG patients and compared delivery complications and newborn health to a group of women without MG who gave birth to 1.9 million babies.### What effect did MG have on the mothers and newborns? Information about the mothers and newborns in both groups is given in table 1. Mothers with MG were older than the mothers without MG. They were also more likely to deliver in a university hospital. There was no difference in the average birth weight, age at birth, or death rate of the newborns between the two groups. View this table:Table 1 Patient characteristics ### What effects did MG have on the delivery? The number of births requiring medications to induce labor was not increased in MG mothers. However, the percentage requiring cesarean section was doubled compared with the reference group (17.6% in the MG …

The effect of myasthenia gravis on pregnancy and the newborn