To examine the possible impact of previous induced abortion on the occurrence of preterm delivery in the subsequent pregnancy in teenage women, a retrospective case-control study was performed on mothers aged 13-19 years who delivered in one tertiary hospital over a 4 year period. Those who had a history of induced abortion prior to the index pregnancy were identified from the records and compa...

BACKGROUND Over six million induced abortions were reported in Africa in 2008 with over two million induced abortions occurring in Eastern Africa. Although a significant proportion of women in the region procure more than one abortion during their reproductive period, there is a dearth of research on factors associated with repeat abortion. METHODS Data for this study come from the Magnitude ...

CONTEXT Abortion is severely restricted in Iran, and many women with an unwanted pregnancy resort to clandes-tine, unsafe abortions. Accurate information on abortion incidence is needed to assess the extent to which women ?experience unwanted pregnancies and to allocate resources for contraceptive services. METHODS Data for analysis came from 2,934 married women aged 15-49 who completed the 2...

OBJECTIVE To study incidence and determinants of emotional distress following induced abortion. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University, University Hospital Malmö, Sweden. SUBJECTS A series of 854 participants at 12-month postabortion follow-up, representing 66.5% of the 1285 women undergoing induced abortion at Malmö, 1989. METHODS Analysis of data elicited at a ...

The objective of this study was to establish whether or not patients with unexplained recurrent abortion have an increased incidence of haemostatic or metabolic abnormalities. Fifty-two patients with a history of unexplained habitual abortion (two or more spontaneous abortions before 16 weeks' gestation) were tested for protein S, protein C and antithrombin (AT) III deficiency, activated protei...

WHO the incidence of abortion is ±10-15% 6 million pregnancies. Abortion expulsion products conception that occurs at gestational age < 20 weeks and fetal weight ≤ 500 grams. Factors causing are parity, maternal age, history, education level gap. There also other affecting factors, namely predisposition to repeated abortions. The possibility abortions in a woman who has had three times or mo...