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FETAL DEATH IN ECLAMPSIA: II THE EFFECT OF NON‐THERAPEUTIC FACTORS
Author(s) -
Neutra Raymond,
Neff Raymond
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1975.tb00654.x
Subject(s) - medicine , fetus , eclampsia , obstetrics , gestation , abortion , gestational age , therapeutic abortion , fetal death , pregnancy , discriminant function analysis , genetics , machine learning , computer science , biology
Summary The ability of 15 variables to predict fetal death is examined among 173 eclamptic women admitted to the only public maternity hospital in Cali, Colombia, between 1st January 1964 and 31st December 1970. In addition to low gestational age and retarded fetal growth, high systolic pressure and the unmarried status carried excess risk. Primiparae appeared to be of lower risk because their eclampsia tended to occur late in gestation and was characterized by less retarded fetal growth. Older women and women with a history of abortion appeared to be of higher risk because they tended to have higher systolic pressures. A discriminant function risk formula is presented which generated groups with a nine‐fold difference in fetal death rates. This formula could be used to standardize for relevant non‐therapeutic factors which might vary between patient groups who had received different therapeutic regimens.