Interpregnancy interval and preterm birth: correlation versus causation debate continued
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Interpregnancy interval and risk of preterm birth and neonatal death: retrospective cohort study.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether a short interval between pregnancies is an independent risk factor for adverse obstetric outcome. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Scotland. SUBJECTS 89 143 women having second births in 1992-8 who conceived within five years of their first birth. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Intrauterine growth restriction (birth weight less than the 5th centile for ge...
متن کاملInterpregnancy interval. Association with birth weight, stillbirth, and neonatal death.
Pairs of first and second births and pairs of second and third births to the same Norwegian mothers were studied to determine the association between interpregnancy interval and birth weight, stillbirth, and neonatal death. Use of the pair approach provides one birth which could possibly have been affected by the length of the interval and one birth which could not. The association of interval ...
متن کاملEffect of interpregnancy interval on risk of spontaneous preterm birth in Emirati women, United Arab Emirates.
OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a short interpregnancy interval is a risk factor for preterm birth in Emirati women, where there is a wide range of interpregnancy intervals and uniformity in potentially confounding factors. METHODS A case-control design based on medical records was used. A case was defined as a healthy multiparous Emirati woman delivering a healthy singleton spontaneously be...
متن کاملCorrelation versus causation in multisensory perception.
Events are often perceived in multiple modalities. The co-occurring proximal visual and auditory stimuli events are mostly also causally linked to the distal event, which makes it difficult to evaluate whether learned correlation or perceived causation guides binding in multisensory perception. Piano tones are an interesting exception: They are associated with the act of the pianist striking ke...
متن کاملNeonatal seizures: continued debate on phenobarbitone versus phenytoin.
Authors of a recent paper [1] concluded that phenobarbitone is more efficacious than phenytoin in control of clinical seizures in term or near-term neonates. However, it has been inferred from apparent misinterpretation of data. The preponderance of seizure type was subtle seizure, which should not be considered as clinical seizure equivalent. Authors themselves mentioned of observations by Miz...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1470-0328
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.14168