OBJECTIVE to understand the episiotomy rate and its relationship with various clinical variables. METHOD a descriptive, cross-sectional, analytic study of 12,093 births in a tertiary hospital. VARIABLES Parity, gestational age, start of labor, use of epidural analgesia, oxytocin usage, position during fetal explusion, weight of neonate, and completion of birth. The analysis was performed wi...

Introduction. Pyelonephritis is a common complication of pregnancy. It is also exacerbated by immunocompromised states and also the sickle cell gene. We reviewed this condition in Jamaican women. Method. We did a six year hospital database docket review. We found 102 confirmed cases. Results. Pyelonephritis was found in 0.7% of deliveries. The mean maternal age was 24 ± 5.83 years with 51% prim...

BACKGROUND Many women experience sexual dysfunction following childbirth but this has not been well investigated in Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate women's sexual function in the postpartum period in Iran. It also sought to determine predicting factors associated with their sexual function. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study among 380 postpartum women attending 10 urban heal...

Objective: To estimate magnitude, determinants of perinatal mortality and suggest remedial measures for its reduction. Background: Perinatal mortality is mirror reflection of maternal and child health and socioeconomic environment of community. It is influenced by various medicosocial preventable causes. It can be reduced by improving maternal and child health services and by health education. ...

OBJECTIVE To examine maternal and obstetric factors influencing births by cesarean section according to health care funding. METHODS A cross-sectional study with data from Southeastern Brazil. Caesarean section births from February 2011 to July 2012 were included. Data were obtained from interviews with women whose care was publicly or privately funded, and from their obstetric and neonatal r...

OBJECTIVE To explore the independent effects of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on maternity care and costs. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Estimates for maternity care resource activity and costs for 4,372 women, of whom 354 (8.1%) were diagnosed with GDM, were generated from data from the Atlantic Diabetes in Pregnancy (ATLANTIC DIP) database. Multivariate regression analysis was applied t...

OBJECTIVE To describe fetal growth centiles in relation to maternal malaria and HIV status, using cross sectional measurements at birth. DESIGN A cross sectional study of pregnant women and their babies. Data on maternal socioeconomic status and current pregnancy, including HIV status and newborn anthropometry, were collected. Malaria parasitaemia was assessed in maternal peripheral and place...

AIM To determine differences between groups with hypertension in pregnancy and assess risk factors associated with preeclampsia. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the period 2008-10 at the Department of Nephrology in Skopje, Macedonia, a prospective and a longitudinal study study comprising 134 pregnant women was carried out. They had regular monthly check-ups in pregnancy and after delivery (1-8), whe...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to statistically evaluate the independent and interacting effects of biological and environmental risk factors that influence lateralization of deformational plagiocephaly (DP) in an attempt to provide future guidance for clinical treatment. METHODS A database of >20000 children treated for DP was examined by using 2- and 3-way factor analyses for categorical...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the possible factors related to the birth weight (BW) using the Japanese perinatal database. METHODS The live infants born at 37 to 41 weeks of gestation were enrolled in this study. Cases with diabetic pregnancy, preeclampsia, an anomalous fetus, and a fetus with chromosomal abnormalities were excluded. A multiple regression analysis for confounding factors and an a...