Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy and early postpartum - prevalence and risk factors in a multi-ethnic cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) is common during and after pregnancy. It has been assumed that Scandinavian women report more PGP than women of other ethnicities. However, there are few population-based studies on ethnic differences and few with ethnicity as risk factor for PGP. The purposes of the present study were: To examine the prevalence of self-reported PGP through pregnancy and early postpartum in a multi-ethnic cohort. To investigate how ethnicity and patient characteristics were associated with risk of PGP during pregnancy and early postpartum. To investigate if clinical and personal factors obtained in gestation week (GW) 15 were associated with PGP in GW28 and postpartum week (PPW) 14.

Methods

This study analyzed questionnaire data from 823 women from the Sto

SUBMITTER: Robinson HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature