Bacterial Vaginosis
BV a strong risk factor for preterm delivery, miscarriage in early pregnancy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 21st, 2003
Harald Leitich and colleagues at the University of Vienna, Austria, found 18 studies in the literature that met the following criteria:
"1) data appeared in original, published English-language reports of prospective studies or control groups of clinical trials that included women at <37 weeks of gestation with intact amniotic membranes,
2) all the women had to have been screened for bacterial vaginosis that was diagnosed by either clinical criteria or criteria that were based on...
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