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BIRTH WEIGHT BEFORE AND AFTER A SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
Author(s) -
Alberman Eva,
Roman Eve,
Pharoah P. O. D.,
Chamberlain G.
Publication year - 1980
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.1471-0528.1980.tb04539.x
Subject(s) - abortion , pregnancy , obstetrics , birth weight , medicine , low birth weight , gynecology , biology , genetics
Summary A survey of pregnancies occurring in 3502 women doctors provided an opportunity to examine the relationship between early fetal loss and birth weight. This was found to be complex. The most important observations were that the mean birth weight of babies preceding a spontaneous fetal loss was lower than that of livebirths preceding another livebirth, and that in the subgroup of women with repeated early losses, mean birth weight fell with increasing pregnancy order. In contrast, mean birth weight of the first livebirth following a single spontaneous abortion was higher, though not significantly, than that of livebirths in the first pregnancy.