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- Title
A new approach to assessing the effect of birth order on the outcome of pregnancy.
- Authors
Yudkin, P. L.; Baras, M.
- Abstract
A new approach is suggested for assessing the relationship between birth order and pregnancy risk. Population data are used to estimate the risk of a poor pregnancy outcome after different reproductive histories. The risk of a poor outcome at the first pregnancy appears to be twice that at subsequent pregnancies, but no change in risk is observed between the second and fifth birth orders. If there has been a previous poor pregnancy outcome, the risk of another is increased four-fold.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; BIRTH order; HEALTH outcome assessment; PERINATAL death; PREGNANCY complications; REPRODUCTIVE history; SUBSEQUENT pregnancy; PARITY (Obstetrics); INFANT mortality
- Publication
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1983, Vol 15, Issue 3, p307
- ISSN
0021-9320
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021932000014644