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Stillbirth risk up after first preterm or SGA birth: watch second pregnancy closely.(Obstetrics)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Women who give birth preterm or deliver a child who is small for gestational age are more likely to have a stillbirth in a subsequent pregnancy, compared with those whose babies are normal weight or born at term, Pamela J. Surkan said at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.
Overall, the risk of a subsequent stillbirth tripled in women who delivered preterm compared with those who delivered at term or later in an analysis of 410,021 women in the Swedish National Birth Registry. The results "could help physicians identify women at risk for stillbirth with a second pregnancy and increase surveillance of women with a history of small-for-gestational-age" infants, said Ms. Surkan, a doctoral student at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.
The women delivered singletons between 1982 and 1997 and subsequently delivered second children, 1,062 of whom were stillborn. The risk for subsequent stillbirth increased more after a preterm delivery than after delivery of a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) child in a univariate analysis, said Ms. ...
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