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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PRETERM DELIVERY

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1980
1. Defining prematurity as applying to LBW infants of less than 37 weeks' gestation and classifying those LBW infants of greater than 37 weeks as having IUGR provides an improved means of analyzing different risk factors. 2. In accordance with the method of D'Angelo and Sokol, risk factors have been assigned to the various disease entities and social ...
D F, Kaltreider, S, Kohl
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Recurrence of Preterm Delivery in Women with a Family History of Preterm Delivery

American Journal of Perinatology, 2016
Objective This study aims to evaluate the role of a family history of preterm delivery on the risk of preterm delivery in the next generation. Study Design A retrospective population-based study was conducted. Perinatal information was gathered from 2,303 familial triads, composed of mothers (F1), daughters (F2), and children (F3).
Yehonatan, Sherf, Eyal, Sheiner, Ilana Shoham, Vardi, Ruslan, Sergienko, Jamie, Klein, Natalya, Bilenko   +5 more
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Idiopathic preterm deliveries in Denmark

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1995
To characterize and quantify various demographic factors in idiopathic preterm delivery.All women with a permanent address in Denmark and a singleton pregnancy who gave birth to a preterm infant in 1982 (N = 51,851) were included. The material was obtained by a linkage of the Medical Birth Register and the National Register of Hospital Discharges ...
J, Kristensen, J, Langhoff-Roos, F B, Kristensen   +2 more
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Standing at Work and Preterm Delivery

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1995
ABSTRACTObjective Guidelines in some European countries and the United States suggest that pregnant women should avoid prolonged standing and heavy lifting in the workplace during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. However, results from epidemiological studies on this topic are ambiguous. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of
T B, Henriksen, M, Hedegaard, N J, Secher, A J, Wilcox   +3 more
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Adenomyosis and risk of preterm delivery

BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2007
Objective  To evaluate the risk of preterm delivery in patients with adenomyosis. Design  A 1:2 nested case–control study. Setting  Tertiary‐care institution.
Pesus Chou, M-S Yen
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Mode Of Delivery Of Preterm Twins

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1988
EDITORIAL COMMENT: This paper concludes that the vaginal route is appropriate, in terms of perinatal mortality and immediate morbidity, for the delivery of approximately 80% of twins born before 33 weeks' gestation. The trend towards Caesarean section in multiple pregnancy should be scrutinized as for singleton pregnancies. Falling perinatal mortality
L W, Doyle, C D, Hughes, R L, Guaran, M A, Quinn, W H, Kitchen   +4 more
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Predicting preterm delivery and lowering very preterm delivery rate

Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2001
The chances and quality of survival depend on gestational age at birth. Why has PTD not decreased during the last decade, in spite of all the known risk factors? Perinatal data bases tend to include biomedical risk factors and are assembled and analysed retrospectively.
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Cervical screening for preterm delivery

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2002
The ability of sonographic cervical length screening to detect those at risk of spontaneous preterm delivery has been extensively explored over the past few years. This applies both to high-risk and low-risk groups. Cervical length measurement appears to be superior to biochemical, microbiological or hormonal methods of screening.
Welsh, A, Nicolaides, K
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Obstetric antecedents for preterm delivery

Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2008
To investigate the obstetric antecedents for preterm delivery (PTD) in an Irish urban obstetric population, and to evaluate the incidence and outcome of such deliveries.A retrospective observational study of all preterm deliveries at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin during the six-year period 1997-2002.
Michael M, Slattery, Michael, Geary, John J, Morrison   +2 more
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Intrauterine Infection and Preterm Delivery

New England Journal of Medicine, 2000
Preterm delivery is the chief problem in obstetrics today, accounting for 70 percent of perinatal mortality and nearly half of long-term neurologic morbidity.1,2 Approximately 10 percent of all births are preterm, but most of the serious illness and death is concentrated in the 1 to 2 percent of infants who are born at less than 32 weeks of gestation ...
R L, Goldenberg, J C, Hauth, W W, Andrews   +2 more
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