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Gender does not affect fetal heart rate variation
Author(s) -
Ogueh Onome,
Steer Philip
Publication year - 1998
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.1471-0528.1998.tb10011.x
Subject(s) - fetus , affect (linguistics) , variation (astronomy) , significant difference , perception , fetal heart rate , heart rate , medicine , physiology , cardiology , obstetrics , psychology , biology , pregnancy , communication , blood pressure , neuroscience , genetics , physics , astrophysics
There is a widespread but erroneous view among the lay public that there is a difference in the baseline fetal heart rate between male and female fetuses. It has been suggested that this perception might reflect an actual difference in fetal heart rate variability. Therefore, we studied the fetal heart rate variation in 79 white European women using the Sonicaid System 8002 computer. Fourty‐four of the fetuses were male and 35 were female. There was no significant gender difference in any measured aspect of fetal heart rate variation.