Maternal serum screening Governments often promulgate policy on the basis of simplistic ideas.
Giving women more calories has never been shown to affect prematurity. Likewise, supplementation with various nonprotein nutrients does not seem to affect pregnancy outcomes. It is time to discontinue the CPNP and put the money where it will make a real difference to the health of Canadians. Thus, for every fetus with Down's syndrome that is detected by the test, about 70 pregnant women will be told incorrectly that their fetus has the condition. They found only a slight increase in anxiety among women who had a false-positive result.