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- Title
Trends in Fetal and Infant Survival Following Preeclampsia.
- Authors
Basso, Olga; Rasmuessen, Svein; Weinberg, Clarice R.; Wilcox, Allen J.; Irgens, Lorentz M.; Skjaerven, Rolv
- Abstract
The article discusses the risks and management of preeclampsia to maximize an infant's survival rate and shows the survival rate of Norwegian infants over a 37 year timespan. Norwegian researchers focused on pregnancies of at least 24 weeks and which were confirmed as first-births. A comparison with non-preeclamptic pregancies showed a much higher rate for preeclamptic pregnancies to suffer from stillbirths or infant death. The number of induced labors increased throughout the 35 year study period although the study also showed that that the decline in infant deaths started before the increase in labor induction. Preeclampsia has been shown to be a large risk factor for fetal death in Norway but the risk for stillbirth has dropped dramatically, from 4.2 times higher with preeclampsia in the 1960s to only 1.3 times higher today.
- Subjects
NORWAY; PREECLAMPSIA prevention; PREECLAMPSIA; INFANT mortality; CAUSES of fetal death; FETAL death; DURATION of pregnancy; INDUCED labor (Obstetrics); PREVENTION
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006, Vol 296, Issue 11, p1357
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.296.11.1357