background: stillbirth is a sensitive indicator for health care quality, living conditions and equity in a society. the aim of this study was to determine the rate and contributing factors of stillbirth at babol hospitals. methods: this cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical study was designed as an applied research, using census sampling in 2012-2013. a questionnaire was applied for data col...

Stillbirth, the loss of a baby during pregnancy or childbirth, is one most devastating losses parent can experience. The experience stillbirth associated with trauma and intense grief, but mothers’ belief systems be protective against impacts grief. Women in Nigeria endure high burden aim this study was to describe beliefs strategies for coping stillbirth. Twenty mothers bereaved by were interv...

Women with a previous stillbirth are known to be at increased risk of stillbirth in subsequent pregnancies. However, few studies have addressed the association between other complications of pregnancy and the future risk of stillbirth. Using linkage of national pregnancy and perinatal death registries, the authors performed a retrospective cohort study of 133,163 women having a second birth in ...

Chronic and acute air pollution has been studied in relation to stillbirth with inconsistent findings. We examined stillbirth risk in a retrospective cohort of 223,375 singleton deliveries from 12 clinical sites across the United States. Average criteria air pollutant exposure was calculated using modified Community Multiscale Air Quality models for the day of delivery and each of the seven day...

INTRODUCTION The risk of abortion is known to be high in women with essential thrombocythemia (ET). However, a few studies have focused on the risk of stillbirth among fetuses reaching gestational age compatible with life. METHODS Review of medical charts of pregnant women with ET who received cares at a single center between January 2003 and June 2013 and the English literature in which more...

Exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuel use (IAP) has been linked to approximately 1.5 million annual deaths (World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/indoorair/publications/fuelforlife/en/index.html)) due to acute lower respiratory infections in children <5 years of age and chronic obstructive lung disease and lung cancer in adults. Emerging evidence suggests that IAP increases t...

BACKGROUND In Australia, significant disparity persists in stillbirth rates between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) and non-Indigenous women. Diabetes, hypertension, antepartum haemorrhage and small-for-gestational age (SGA) have been identified as important contributors to higher rates among Indigenous women. The objective of this study was to examine gestational ...