Neonatal and Maternal Outcomes of Pregnancies following Stillbirth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prior stillbirth increases risk of subsequent stillbirth but has unclear effect on subsequent liveborn pregnancies. We examined associations between prior stillbirth, adverse neonatal outcomes, and maternal morbidity in subsequent liveborn pregnancies.

Study design

This is a secondary analysis of a large, National Institutes of Health-funded retrospective cohort study of parturients who delivered a singleton infant at a tertiary-care hospital from January 2002 to March 2013 and had a past medical/obstetric history of diabetic, and/or hypertensive disorders, and/or pregnancy with fetal growth restriction. Our analysis included all multiparous patients from the parent study. The primary outcome was a neonatal morbidity composite (neonatal resuscitation, neonatal birt

SUBMITTER: Brakewood ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11194182 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature