Knowledge is limited on mortality of grand multiparous women (> or =5 deliveries), whose hormonal, metabolic, and social conditions differ from the average. The authors studied overall and cause-specific mortality in 1974-2001 among 87,922 grand multiparous women including 3,678 grand grand multiparous women (> or =10 deliveries) in Finland. Standardized mortality ratios were defined as ratios ...
