Aim: To evaluate the association of employment related-physical activity during pregnancy with birth weight and still birth. Methods: A prospective cohort study was carried out in four hospitals. All singleton pregnant women ≥20 weeks’ gestational age attending antenatal care at tertiary hospitals were selected. They followed up from 20th week gestation till delivery. The outcomes this low stil...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), that was later declared pandemic by World Health Organization, had led to panic and fear worldwide. Like many outbreaks caused viruses, in cheif reason for the infectious agent's potential be transmitted from pregnant women their fetuses newborns. In our study, hospital records of 117 who delivered stillbirths clinic between 01.01.2015 31.12.2020 were ex...

Despite improvement in antenatal and intrapartum care, late intrauterine fetal death at and after 28 weeks of gestation remains a persistent and challenging problem to the obstetricians. We undertook the retrospective review of the medical records of 89 women with singleton pregnancy who gave birth to still-born infants at or more than 28 weeks gestation during the period from April 1998 to Apr...

Dear Editor, Stillbirth rate still continues to be high in the world. Some studies have reported stillbirth rate to be between 10.4 and 46.4 per 1000 birth. The aim of this case control study was to investigate the incidence of stillbirth and the risk factors at Babol hospitals, Northern Iran. A total of 4219 live births and 86 stillbirths were reported in the 7 month period. The rate of stillb...

cases (400). Browne dealt very fully with his subject, describing minutely the microscopic findings in a large number of postmortem examinations. There are many here to-night who will remember these addresses; but in so far as some five years have elapsed since Browne's work was last discussed, we trust that this fresh series of cases will not be devoid of interest. We have not attempted to inv...