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- Title
PID, Smoking Raise Ectopic Risk.
- Authors
Costello, J.
- Abstract
The article declares that women with confirmed pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) or a chlamydial infection are four to six times as likely as other women to have an ectopic pregnancy, according to a recent French case-control study. Moreover, heavy cigarette smokers are at nearly three times greater risk. In 1988, a total of 279 women aged 15 to 44 with an extra uterine pregnancy treated at one of seven Paris maternity hospitals were contrasted with 279 comparable women who had given birth at the same facilities. The investigators found that aside from a history of ectopic pregnancies, the factors that had the greatest impact on the women's risk were a history of sexually transmitted diseases and confirmed PID and prior tubal surgery unrelated to ectopic pregnancy.
- Subjects
ECTOPIC pregnancy; PELVIC inflammatory disease; CHLAMYDIA infections; WOMEN'S health; CIGARETTE smokers; SEXUALLY transmitted diseases
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p149
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article