Chlamydia (Screening)
Lower Infection Rates Associated with Fewer Ectopic Pregnancies in Sweden
Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 29th, 1998
Declining rates of infection in the county of Uppsala in Sweden associated with the implementation of prevention policies probably have led to a fall in the rate of ectopic pregnancies, according to a 10-year study published in the British Medical Journal (Egger et al., "Screening for Chlamydial Infection and the Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy in a County in Sweden: Ecological Analysis," BMJ, June 1998;316:1776-80).
Writing in the June 18, 1998, edition of Eurosurveillance Weekly, Caroline Akehurst explained that Sweden introduced a...
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