Preterm Labor
Increased risk may be linked to presence of common bacterium in amniotic fluid
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 6th, 2003
Results from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study are published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The study found that U. urealyticum was present in the amniotic fluid of 11.4% of the 254 enrolled women, all of whom were healthy and in their second trimester of pregnancy. Of the women who tested positive for the microbe, 58.6% went on to have preterm labor, compared to 4.4% of women who tested negative. ...
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