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Maternal fever not linked to fetal death. (Large Danish Study).
Fever in women during early pregnancy does not increase the risk of fetal death, a large population-based study has shown.
Of 24,040 pregnant women in the Danish National Birth Cohort Study, 3,752 reported at least one episode of fever during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Fetal death occurred in 1,145 pregnancies. The risk of such an outcome did not differ between women who did and did not experience fever, said Dr. AnneMarie Nybo Andersen of Denmark's University of Copenhagen and colleagues (Lancet 360[9345]:1552-56, 2002).
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Source: HighBeam Research, Maternal fever not linked to fetal death. (Large Danish Study).