Mortality Survey. These surveys are based on information obtained from mothers, hospitals, attendants at delivery, and providers of radiation examinations for a sample of live births and a sample of fetal deaths. All material appearing in this repai is in the public domain and may be Methods and response characteristics. A, Total number of live births in the United Statesin 1980 and number of l...

OBJECTIVE To study how many infertility patients would complete an average-sized family (achieve ≥2 live births) after a single, complete in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING University-affiliated private infertility practice. PATIENT(S) Women undergoing IVF. INTERVENTION(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) The outcome of 1 or ≥2 live births af...

introduction: congenital gastrointestinal (gi) malformation occurs due to mal development of gi organs. the diagnosis is based on clinical exam and radiography. the aim of this study was to determine prevalence of gastrointestinal anomalies in imam reza hospital deliveries mashhad, iran. materials and methods: in retrospective descriptive study for one year since 1.8.1391 all deliveries in our ...

VOLUME 89, NO. 3 Infant mortality is a frequently used measure of population health status. Because of concern that Canada’s infant mortality rate (IMR) was rising, Joseph and Kramer examined trends in Canada’s IMR and the effect of registering extremely low birthweight (under 500 grams) infants as live births. A live birth is defined as any infant who, after delivery, “...breathes or shows any...

background and purpose: prematurity birth occurs when a newborn is born before the thirty seventh week of pregnancy. preterm birth is the most expensive and the most common health problem. so, the aim of this study was to do epidemiological survey of prematurity in gonbad-e kavous in 2010. materials and methods: this sectional- descriptive study was carried out on 172 premature babies with cens...

BACKGROUND There is a global growing trend of preterm births and a decline trend of fetal deaths. Is there an impact of the decline of fetal mortality on the increase of preterm live births in State of Sao Paulo, Brazil? METHODS The time trends were evaluated by gestational age through exponential regression analysis. Data analyzed included the fetal mortality ratio, proportion of preterm liv...

Various rules have been proposed to identify and exclude live births with implausible values of birth weight for gestational age from large perinatal data sets. The authors carried out a preliminary evaluation of common rules by examining the frequency and nature of rule-based exclusions among live births in Canada (excluding Ontario) between 1992 and 1994. There were 625 (0.09%), 133 (0.02%), ...

Births According to provisional reports, an estimated 307,000 births occurred in the United States during March 1997. This was a decrease of 8 percent from the provisional number of births reported for March 1996 (334,000). The birth rate, 13.6 live births per 1,000 population, was 9 percent lower than the rate of 14.9 for March 1996. The fertility rate, 60.7 live births per 1,000 women ages 15...

background: in recent years, concerns have been raised about human reproductive disorders. caffeine consumption is increasing by the world’s population and there is a relationship between caffeine intake and adverse reproductive outcomes. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of caffeine on implantation sites, number of live births, birth weight, crown-rump length (crl) and abnormal...

Adverse pregnancy experiences were examined retrospectively in relation to adult lifetime experience of clinical depression to see whether such experience conferred long-term risk for women. The sample consisted of just under 200 community-based women, half of whom were selected for high depressive-risk on the basis of adverse childhood experience. Over two-thirds of these women had experienced...