BACKGROUND Differential trends in mortality suggest that stillbirths may dominate neonatal mortality in the medium to long run. Brazil has made major efforts to improve data collection on health indicators at granular geographic levels, and provides an ideal environment to test this hypothesis. Our goals were to examine levels and trends in stillbirths and neonatal deaths and the extent to whic...

OBJECTIVE To determine how fetal growth is related to death from cardiovascular disease in adult life. DESIGN A follow up study of men born during 1907-24 whose birth weights, head circumferences, and other body measurements were recorded at birth. SETTING Sheffield, England. SUBJECTS 1586 Men born in the Jessop Hospital. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Death from cardiovascular disease. RESULTS...

Oxytocin is extensively used to induce or augment uterine contractions, especially to facilitate the third stage of labor in humans. Administration of oxytocin to parturient sows reduces duration of labor whereas mortality of the offspring may remain unchanged. This study aimed to evaluate whether time of administration of oxytocin during parturition may alter the uterine response and fetal out...

Describes comparability of reporting of selected items common to the birth certificate and National Natality Survey questionnaires. Items include age and education of parents, number of previous children, number of fetal deaths, plurality, birth weight, length of pregnancy, and receipt of prenatal care. Querec, LindaJ. Comparability of reporting on birth certificates and national natality surve...

A possible detrimental paternal age effect on offspring health due to mutations of paternal origin should be reflected in an association between paternal age and fetal loss. The authors used data from a prospective study of 23,821 pregnant women recruited consecutively to the Danish National Birth Cohort from 1997 to 1999 to assess the association between paternal age and fetal death. Fathers o...

Introduction. To investigate whether maternal oral flora might be involved in intrauterine infection and subsequent stillbirth or neonatal death and could therefore be detected in fetal and neonatal postmortem bacterial cultures. Methods. This retrospective study of postmortem examinations from 1/1/2000 to 12/31/2010 was searched for bacterial cultures positive for common oral flora from heart ...

Importance Fetal umbilical vein aneurysm is an uncommon anomaly that accounts for approximately 4% of umbilical cord abnormalities. The rate of intrauterine fetal death is reported to be approximately 4% to 5%, higher than the background rate of 0.7% that is generally reported during pregnancy. Objective The aim of this study was to review the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and clinical manageme...

Objectives: This study demonstrates serious under-ascertainment of maternal mortality through death certificate reporting alone, and presents selected statistics by cause of death and demographic groups based on an enhanced surveillance method. Methods: All death records for women ages 10-50 were matched to live birth and fetal death files to identify deaths that occurred within one year after ...

Preeclampsia is one of the most commonly encountered hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). It is mostly feared because of its serious maternal and fetal mortalities and morbidities. Ten percent of women have high blood pressure (BP) during pregnancy, and preeclampsia complicates 2% to 8% of pregnancies 1 . Overall, 10% to 15% of direct maternal deaths are associated with preeclampsia and e...

OBJECTIVE To determine risk factors for perinatal asphyxia. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Teaching hospital. METHODS All consecutive hospital births were evaluated during the study period. Asphyxia was defined on intrapartum and neonatal resuscitation criteria. Maternal, intrapartum and neonatal variables were recorded in all births. Data was analyzed after stratifying for live and stillbi...