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Perinatal mortality: selected data from a survey.
This paper describes the findings of a survey on perinatal cases in Kuala Lumpur. Information on the deceased infants and their deliveries were documented as well as selected social, demographic and anthropometric data on the mothers. This includes quality of the home environment in terms of presence of basic amenities. It wasevident that the lower classes were better represented in the sample.
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The results of chromosome analyses on 500 cases of perinatal deaths are reported. It was found that 4.8% were chromosomally abnormal, but 90% of the chromosomally abnormal were either clinically malformed or macerated fetuses. Of the macerated fetuses, 9% were chromosomally abnormal and of these 33% had trisomy 21. The data suggest that the high loss of trisomy 21 fetuses in later stages of pre...
متن کاملPerinatal Mortality
Sophisticated peoples have a low fertility and great concern for the welfare of their children. Their low birth rate is due to deliberate family limitation; besides planned parenthood, their desire for better living standards leads to emancipation of women, and later marriages. A century ago in Britain, when conditions of infant life were appalling, no less than 15 out of every 100 live born in...
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BACKGROUND The apolipoprotein E (ApoE) polymorphism has been well studied in the adult human population, in part because the e4 allele is a known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Little is known of the distribution of ApoE alleles in newborns, and their association with perinatal brain damage has not been investigated. METHODS ApoE genotyping was undertaken in a Scottish cohort of perinat...
متن کاملThe Case of Perinatal Mortality
Recent studies show that the infants of women with pregestational diabetes have a 4to 6-fold increased risk of PNM reaching 28 to 48 per 10003-14. However, the true PNM rate in this population is difficult to asses because it includes women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and excludes some women with previously undiagnosed type 2 diabetes misdiagnosed as having GDM. There are only a few publish...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6198.1103