849: Cross-generational contributors to preterm birth in California singletons

Intergenerational Cohort Study of Preterm and Small-for-Gestational-Age Birth in Twins and Singletons.

To date, several studies have investigated the intergenerational effect of preterm and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) births. However, most studies excluded both twin mothers and twin offspring from the analyses. Thus, the objective of this study was to investigate the intergenerational effect of preterm birth and SGA births among twins and singletons. A prospective population-based register s...

Strategies to Prevent Preterm Birth

After several decades of research, we now have evidence that at least six interventions are suitable for immediate use in contemporary clinical practice within high-resource settings and can be expected to safely reduce the rate of preterm birth. These interventions involve strategies to prevent non-medically indicated late preterm birth; use of maternal progesterone supplementation; surgical c...

Preterm birth

Placenta in Preterm Birth

To the perinatal pathologists, preterm births are those occurring at less than 37 weeks of gestation. In almost all countries with reliable data, preterm birth rates have increased worldwide. The complications of preterm birth due to prematurity are often serious com‐ munity health problems and account for 75% of perinatal mortalities and more than 50% of long-term infant morbidities [1]. Globa...

Generational Conflict ? Some Cross - Country

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