Adequate prenatal care reduces the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with history of infertility: a nationwide population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the effects of various measures of prenatal care on adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with a history of infertility.

Study design

A retrospective cohort study.

Methods

Data were derived by linking 2 large nationwide population-based datasets, the National Health Insurance Research Database and Taiwan Birth Certificate Registry. The study sample included 15,056 women with an infertility diagnosis and 60,224 randomly selected women without infertility matched to the study sample by maternal age. A conditional logistic regression analysis was performed for the analysis.

Results

Women diagnosed with infertility respectively had 1.39 (95% CI, 1.06~1.83), 1.15 (95% CI, 1.08~1.24), 1.13 (95% CI, 1.08~1.18), and 1.08 (95% CI, 1.05~1.12) high

SUBMITTER: Alibekova R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3866182 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature