Past obstetric history of the mother and its association with low birthweight of a subsequent child: a population based study
| Autor: | Chryssa Tzoumaka-Bakoula, Vasso Lekea-Karanika |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Birth weight Population Abortion Miscarriage Pregnancy Risk Factors medicine Humans education reproductive and urinary physiology education.field_of_study Greece Obstetrics business.industry Infant Newborn Pregnancy Outcome Infant Low Birth Weight medicine.disease Abortion Spontaneous Pregnancy Complications Low birth weight Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Relative risk Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 8(2) |
| ISSN: | 0269-5022 |
| Popis: | A total population sample of 7286 multigravidae from the Greek National Perinatal Survey (April 1983) was used to determine the association between maternal obstetric history and low birthweight of the subsequent singleton delivery. Significant associations were found with previous early and late fetal losses (miscarriages, induced abortions, stillbirths) and history of haemorrhage during a prior pregnancy. It was found that mothers who had experienced miscarriage(s), induced abortion(s) or stillbirth(s) had relative risks (RRs) of 1.65, 1.81 and 3.59 respectively compared with mothers without any fetal loss. The risk increased substantially with the increasing number of losses and reached 8.83 for the small group of mothers who had experienced all three kinds of fetal loss. For mothers with a history of bleeding in a previous pregnancy the risk was double that of mothers without such a history. The results above were changed only slightly when the significant socio-economic characteristics of the family were taken into account. |
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