Prevention of preterm birth
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Achieving a decline in premature births may require an approach aimed at prevention of early labor rather than treatment after preterm labor is diagnosed. Risk factors for premature labor include poverty, malnutrition, sexually transmitted disease, maternal smoking, and other social factors. Physiologic conditions, such as incompetent cervix and genital infection, are also related. Attempting to stop early labor is only part of the puzzle. Effective prevention aimed at reducing contributory risk factors may be necessary to successfully reduce the rate of premature deliveries.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1998
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Determinants of preterm birth rates in Canada from 1981 through 1983 and from 1992 through 1994
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The increase in the numbers of preterm births over the past 20 seems to reflect several factors, including increasing numbers of multiple births and better survival of preterm infants. Preterm birth, meaning birth before 37 weeks of gestation, is usually considered the most important cause of infant mortality, but in this case, the increasing number of surviving early births, including those at 22 weeks or less or 500 grams or less represent fetuses which would have otherwise been termed stillborn or miscarriages.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1998
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Discordant sexual identity in some genetic males with cloacal exstrophy assigned to female sex at birth
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Male babies who have cloacal exstrophy probably should not be raised as females, according to a study of 16 boys aged 5 to 16 who had this disorder. Although 14 had been raised as a female, eight declared that they were male and all 14 had interests and attitudes that are typically male. Cloacal exstrophy is a birth defect that affects the entire pelvis and people with this disorder have small or absent sex organs.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2004
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