Open AccessSex Ratio And Placenta Praevia
Author(s) -
Jakobovits Ákos A.,
Zubek László
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0412.1989.tb07826.x
Subject(s) - medicine , placenta , obstetrics , parity (physics) , birth weight , placenta previa , sex ratio , fetus , pregnancy , perinatal mortality , population , particle physics , biology , genetics , physics , environmental health
In the authors' Department, 144 cases of placenta praevia were treated in the course of 15 years. This number amounted to 0.54% of all births. The sex ratio of fetuses inassociated with this complication was 166.6, which exceeds that of all neonates during the same period of time. A preponderance of male babies was noted when the material was further analysed according to maternal age, parity and neonatal birth weight.