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Stillborn and preterm statistics for Covid-19 first wave

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Babies born preterm decreased slightly and stillborn rates unchanged during first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns. Babies born preterm decreased and stillborn rates remained unchanged during the first four months of COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a large-scale international study. The research of 52 million births from 26 countries, published in Nature Human Behavior, reported a 3-4 […]

Premature baby risk strongly linked to pre-eclampsia

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Women who gave birth to a premature baby after developing pre-eclampsia were 17 times more likely to experience another preterm birth if pre-eclampsia emerged again, new Curtin University research has found. The study, published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, examined more than 125,000 women who experienced two consecutive singleton births in Western […]