Maternal morbidity and mortality associated with interpregnancy interval: cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the impact of interpregnancy interval on maternal morbidity and mortality.

Design

Retrospective cross sectional study with data from the Perinatal Information System database of the Latin American Centre for Perinatology and Human Development, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Setting

Latin America and the Caribbean, 1985-97.

Participants

456 889 parous women delivering singleton infants.

Main outcome measures

Crude and adjusted odds ratios of the effects of short and long interpregnancy intervals on maternal death, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, third trimester bleeding, premature rupture of membranes, postpartum haemorrhage, puerperal endometritis, and anaemia.

Results

Short (<6 months) and long (>59 months) inter

SUBMITTER: Conde-Agudelo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27528 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature