Obstetrics

Preterm Delivery May Indicate Risk for a Subsequent Preterm Birth

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 27th, 2000

A notable portion of preterm babies are born to mothers with a previous preterm delivery, and mothers who had shorter gestation length for the first delivery were at higher risk for a second preterm baby, according to an article appearing in the March 22/29, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Melissa M. Adams, PhD, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues studied data from 122,722 white and 56,174 black women from Georgia with first and second single-child deliveries at 20 to 44 weeks' gestation to evaluate the recurrence of preterm delivery (< 37 weeks gestation) in second...

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