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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SPONTANEOUS PRE‐TERM BIRTH
Author(s) -
Fedrick Jean,
Anderson Anne B. M.
Publication year - 1976
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.1471-0528.1976.tb00840.x
Subject(s) - medicine , low birth weight , abortion , obstetrics , population , singleton , birth weight , incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , demography , pediatrics , environmental health , optics , genetics , physics , sociology , biology
Summary Factors associated with spontaneous pre‐term birth in 283 singleton pregnancies were compared with those present in a total population of 16 994 women at risk studied in the First British Perinatal Mortality Survey. It was shown that the risk of spontaneous pre‐term birth was related to low maternal age, low maternal weight, maternal smoking, low social class, illegitimacy, threatened abortion, and a previous history of antepartum haemorrhage, perinatal loss, or low birth weight livebirths.