Background The Rh-negative gene is a well known cause of perinatal mortality especially before there were any effective treatment. The Rh disease, that is caused by a Rh positive foetus carried by a Rh negative mother, leads to typical patterns of perinatal mortality with an increase of mortality with parity and mortality clustered in families. This effect has been largely neglected in earlier ...

from july 1998 to november 1999 we have followed up 15712 deliveries (12044 vaginal and 3668 cesarean section) in our hospital. among these, 182 cases were primarily diagnosed as intrauterine growth restriction (iugr) and 248 pregnancies were complicated with hypertensive disorders. in these two groups we have investigated the outcome of the neonates. neonatal weight under the 10th percentile i...

Perinatal statistics are one of the most essential outcome indicators used by many developed countries in order to evaluate perinatal services provided to newborns. In this retrospective study, we collected 15 years of perinatal data at King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in order to determine stillbirth and other mortality rates in our institute and compare them with intern...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the recurrence risk of preterm delivery and estimate the perinatal mortality in repeated preterm deliveries. METHODS Prospective study in Tanzania of 18 176 women who delivered a singleton between 2000 and 2008 at KCMC hospital. The women were followed up to 2010 for consecutive births. A total of 3359 women were identified with a total of 3867 subsequent deliveries in ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To consider the association between biological and social risk factors and perinatal mortality in an ethnically mixed population in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DESIGN This was a matched case-control study. Cases included all registered stillborn infants and all registered liveborn infants who died within seven days of birth. Controls were selected from infants remaining alive....

BACKGROUND Although some paternal components to the predisposition to pre-eclampsia have been demonstrated recently, it is not known whether such paternal factors play a role to thrombophilia-related perinatal mortality. OBJECTIVE To compare the paternal and maternal contribution to perinatal mortality. STUDY DESIGN Data from a prospective registry of perinatal mortality in a Dutch healthca...

BACKGROUND The major causes of maternal and perinatal deaths are mostly pregnancy related. However, there are several predisposing factors for the increased risk of pregnancy related complications and deaths in developing countries. The objective of this review was to grossly estimate the effect of selected socioeconomic and cultural factors on maternal mortality, stillbirths and neonatal morta...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation of diastolic blood pressure in pregnancy with birth weight and perinatal mortality. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING 15 maternity units in one London health region, 1988-2000. PARTICIPANTS 210 814 first singleton births of babies weighing more than 200 g among mothers with no hypertension before 20 weeks' gestation and without proteinuria, delivering...

Background: Perinatal mortality is a serious challenge in meeting the maternal and child MDGs in developing countries. Identifying its predictors is an important step to develop focused and appropriate health interventions for reducing perinatal deaths. This study was aimed at identifying predictors of perinatal mortality in a rural setting in northwest Ethiopia. Methods: Nested case control st...

BACKGROUND Perinatal mortality is one of the serious challenges in meeting maternal and child Millennium Development Goals in developing countries. Identifying its predictors is an important step to develop focused and appropriate health interventions for reducing perinatal deaths. This study therefore aims at identifying predictors of perinatal mortality in a rural setting in northwest Ethiopi...