Stillbirth is delivery of a baby at or after 24 weeks of gestational age (UK definition) not showing any signs of life. It affects almost one in 200 pregnancies and is the single major cause of perinatal death. Stillbirth is associated with a wide range of maternal demographic characteristics...
Objectives To evaluate the performance of screening for all stillbirths and those due to impaired placentation and unexplained or other causes using a combination of maternal factors, fetal biometry and uterine artery pulsatility index (UtA‐PI) at 19-24 weeks' gestation and to compare this ...
In the UK stillbirth, describes the death of a baby before birth after 24 completed weeks of pregnancy. The rate has decreased in the UK over recent years but at a slower pace than other similar high-income countries. The association of certain risk factors (including maternal age, previous ...
because at the time of this report, follow-up through 20 weeks was not yet available for 905 of the 1224 participants vaccinated within 30 days before the first day of the last menstrual period or in the first trimester. Furthermore, any risk estimate would need to account for gestational w...
Stillbirth is defined in the UK as the death of a baby after 24 weeks gestation and neonatal death is death within the first 4 weeks of life. Less is known about the experience of grandparents after such an event. As grandparents might expect to play an important role in their putative ...
The source population for this study included all pregnancies at least 28 weeks' gestation among reproductive-age women in SSA countries. Whereas, the study population was drawn from selected enumeration areas within 27 SSA countries. Sampling size determination and sampling method The DHS used a mul...
The United Kingdom (UK) rate; defined as “the birth of a baby that has died after at least 24 completed weeks of pregnancy” is approximately five in every 1000 births [3], one of the highest in Europe and with little significant reduction in decades [4]. Stillbirth is a traumatic ...
(n = 43) of observer-assessed stillbirths weighed under 1000 g (Fig.6), of these 26 were 28 weeks gestation or older and thus still meet the stillbirth definition. Six percent (n = 33) of observer-assessed stillbirths were under 28 weeks gestation at admission, most in...
[112] in women at risk of preterm birth between 24 and 31 weeks of gestation showed that the women in the intervention group had a statistically non-significant slightly elevated risk of the composite outcome of stillbirth or infant death (RR = 1.12; 95% CI: 0.85–1.47). Risk of moderate...
Stillbirth or delivery of an infant after 22–24 weeks of gestation with no signs of life is unexpected and devastating. In 2009, 2.6 million stillbirths were reported worldwide [1]. Even in high-income countries where pregnancy outcomes have improved substantially, stillbirth continues to be com...