The temporal variation in the stillbirth rates (SBR), measured as the number of stillborn per 1000 total births, among singletons, twins and triplets was studied on Swedish birth data for the period 1869 to 2001 and comparisons with data from other populations were made. Among both single and multiple births there were marked, almost monotonously decreasing trends in the stillbirth rates. Among...

Objective: To identify psycho-emotional disorders diagnosed in women after stillbirth. Design: Cross-sectional study a face-to-face questionnaire. Setting: Postpartum area at a tertiary care referral hospital in León, Guanajuato, México. Participants: 210 women at immediate postpartum, divided into 105 women with stillbirth and 105 with healthy live newborn (controls). Data collection: Women an...

BACKGROUND Stillbirths often are not seen as a major public health problem, for despite increasing attention and investment on maternal, neonatal, and child health, stillbirths remain invisible. AIM The objective of this study was to determine the stillbirth rate at the Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Analysis of the case records of stillbirths that occurr...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to define gross patterns of umbilical cord hypercoiling and determine correlations with histological features in the placenta and/or perinatal outcomes such as stillbirth. METHODS Gross images of placentas with hypercoiled umbilical cords (>3 coils/10 cm) were assigned a major umbilical coiling pattern and the direction (right or left) of the coiling...

INTRODUCTION Despite the substantial global burden of preterm and stillbirth, little attention has been given to the ethical considerations related to research and interventions in the global context. Ethical dilemmas surrounding reproductive decisions and the care of preterm newborns impact the delivery of interventions, and are not well understood in low-resource settings. Issues such as how ...

BACKGROUND Stillbirth is strongly related to impaired fetal growth. However, the relationship between fetal growth and stillbirth is difficult to determine because of uncertainty in the timing of death and confounding characteristics affecting normal fetal growth. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a population-based case-control study of all stillbirths and a representative sample of live bir...

OBJECTIVE Community based evidence on pregnancy outcomes in rural Africa is lacking yet it is needed to guide maternal and child health interventions. We estimated and compared adverse pregnancy outcomes and associated factors in rural south-western Uganda using two survey methods. METHODS Within a general population cohort, between 1996 and 2013, women aged 15-49 years were interviewed on th...

BACKGROUND Climate change is expected to have adverse health effects, but the association between extreme ambient temperatures and stillbirth is unclear. OBJECTIVES We investigated acute and chronic associations between extreme ambient temperatures and stillbirth risk, and estimated the attributable risk associated with local temperature extremes in the United States. METHODS We linked 223,...

OBJECTIVE To study if the duration of individual Doppler abnormalities is an independent predictor of adverse outcome in fetal growth restriction (FGR) caused by placental dysfunction. METHODS This was a secondary analysis of patients with FGR (abdominal circumference < 5(th) percentile and umbilical artery (UA) pulsatility index (PI) elevation) who had at least three examinations before deli...