{"id":4786,"date":"2026-07-28T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:48:17","slug":"pakistani-researchers-find-link-between-the-microbiome-and-premature-birth-state-of-the-world-from-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=4786","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani researchers find link between the microbiome and premature birth : State of the World from NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Pakistan study finds link between microbiome and premature birth : State of the World from NPR<\/b><b>A single bacteria in a pregnant person\u2019s microbiome can signal whether their baby is at risk for premature birth. Lower levels of a bacteria called <em>Prevotella copri<\/em>indicated a greater chance a woman would not carry her <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=4698\" title=\"Conflict and instability make pregnancy more dangerous\">pregnancy<\/a> to full term. Researchers in Pakistan called the discovery a \u201cEureka moment\u201d for them.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>State of the World from NPR<\/h3>\n<p>NPR<br \/>\nPakistani researchers find link between the microbiome and premature birth<\/p>\n<p>A grandmother rocks the hammock of five-month-old baby Ladoo in Rehri Goth, Pakistan. Researchers in Pakistan have found a link between premature births and the microbiome of &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=4655&quot; title=&quot;Free bus travel to help vulnerable <a href=\"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/?p=4603\" title=\"VENEZUELA EARTHQUAKES: Pregnant Women and New Mothers Face Growing Health Risks\">pregnant women<\/a> get to hospital&#8221;&gt;pregnant women<\/a>.<br \/>\n                <b>Diaa Hadid\/NPR<\/b><b><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b><br \/>\nDiaa Hadid\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>A single bacteria in a pregnant person\u2019s microbiome can signal whether their baby is at risk for premature birth. Lower levels of a bacteria called Prevotella copriindicated a greater chance a woman would not carry her pregnancy to full term. Researchers in Pakistan called the discovery a \u201cEureka moment\u201d for them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grandmother rocks the hammock of five-month-old baby Ladoo in Rehri Goth, Pakistan. Researchers in Pakistan have found a link between premature births and the microbiome of pregnant women. Diaa Hadid\/NPRhide caption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,448,272,446,447],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pregnancy","tag-between","tag-find","tag-link","tag-pakistani","tag-researchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumeamara.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}