Yvonne W. Cheng
California Pacific Medical Center
212 Papers
454 Citations
Yvonne W. Cheng is an academic researcher from California Pacific Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pregnancy & Gestational diabetes. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 207 publications. Previous affiliations of Yvonne W. Cheng include Brigham and Women's Hospital & University of California, Davis.
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Papers
Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus : Perinatal Outcomes
Yvonne W. Cheng,Judith H. Chung,Ingrid Kurbisch-Block,Maribeth Inturrisi,Sherri Shafer,Aaron B. Caughey +5 more
TL;DR: Women diagnosed with GDM who had gestational weight gain above the IOM guidelines have higher risk of undesirable outcomes, including preterm delivery, having macrosomic neonates, and cesarean delivery.
Maternal Diagnosis of Obesity and Risk of Cerebral Palsy in the Child
Mary D. Crisham Janik,Thomas B. Newman,Yvonne W. Cheng,Guibo Xing,William M. Gilbert,Yvonne W. Wu +5 more
TL;DR: Maternal obesity may confer an increased risk of CP in some cases, and further studies are needed to confirm this finding.
Neonatal outcomes in the setting of preterm premature rupture of membranes complicated by chorioamnionitis
TL;DR: Patients who develop chorioamnionitis in the setting of PPROM are at higher risk for adverse neonatal outcomes compared with patients without chorioAMT in theSetting of P PROM.
Patient counseling increases postpartum follow-up in women with gestational diabetes mellitus
Marina Stasenko,Jennifer Liddell,Yvonne W. Cheng,Teresa N. Sparks,Molly M. Killion,Aaron B. Caughey,Aaron B. Caughey +6 more
TL;DR: GDM precedes the development of type 2 diabetes and antepartum education counseling increases postpartum diabetes testing, and more efforts are needed to obtain universal screening.
The association between body mass index and gestational diabetes mellitus varies by race/ethnicity.
TL;DR: BMI's screening characteristics to predict GDM varied by race/ethnicity and can be used to counsel regarding the risk of developing GDM, but alone it is not a good screening tool.