OBJECTIVE Maternal smoking has previously been associated with risk of stillbirth. If women who quit smoking reduce their risk of stillbirth, the hypothesis of a causal association would be supported. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Nationwide study in Sweden. POPULATION All primiparous women who delivered their first and second consecutive single births between 1983 and 2001, gi...

BACKGROUND Advanced maternal age (AMA; ≥35 years) is an increasing trend and is reported to be associated with various pregnancy complications. OBJECTIVE To determine the risk of stillbirth and other adverse pregnancy outcomes in women of AMA. SEARCH STRATEGY Embase, Medline (Ovid), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ClinicalTrials.gov, LILACS and conference proceedings were searched ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the rates and aetiologies of stillbirth over the past 50 years. STUDY DESIGN We reviewed all autopsy reports for stillbirths occurring between 1989 and 2009 at the McGill University Health Centre to determine the pathological aetiology of stillbirths. We also reviewed maternal characteristics. We compared our results with a previous study published in 1992 on aetiologies ...

INTRODUCTION Stillbirth has a long-lasting impact on parents and families. This study examined socio-economic predictors associated with stillbirth in Nepal for the year 2001, 2006 and 2011. METHODS The Nepalese Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) data for the period (2001-2011) were pooled to estimate socio-economic predictors associated with stillbirths in Nepal using binomial logistic reg...

The study objectives were to examine the association of maternal haemoglobin with stillbirth and perinatal death in a multi-ethnic population in England. We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using anonymised maternity data from 14 001 women with singleton pregnancies ≥24 weeks' gestation giving birth between 2013 and 2015 in two hospitals - the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Guy's an...

BACKGROUND Stillbirths do not count in routine worldwide data-collating systems or for the Millennium Development Goals. Two sets of national stillbirth estimates for 2000 produced similar worldwide totals of 3·2 million and 3·3 million, but rates differed substantially for some countries. We aimed to develop more reliable estimates and a time series from 1995 for 193 countries, by increasing i...

* Kirkuk Health Directorate , Kirkuk, Iraq. ** Department of gynecology, college of medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) and the international classification of diseases (ICD) defined stillbirth as the death of a fetus that has reached a birth weight of 500g, or if birth weight is unavailable, a gestational age of 22 weeks or crownto...

abstract background: stillbirth is one of the deepest losses that can inflict a broad range of cognitive, mental, spiritual, and physical turmoil. many researchers believe that the failure to provide the care required by health teams during the hard times is the main determinant of maternal mental health in the future. in other words, social support can significantly improve the mental health o...