Risk of recurrent spontaneous preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the risk of recurrent spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) following sPTB in singleton pregnancies.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis using random effects models.

Data sources

An electronic literature search was conducted in OVID Medline (1948-2017), Embase (1980-2017) and ClinicalTrials.gov (completed studies effective 2017), supplemented by hand-searching bibliographies of included studies, to find all studies with original data concerning recurrent sPTB.

Study eligibility criteria

Studies had to include women with at least one spontaneous preterm singleton live birth (<37 weeks) and at least one subsequent pregnancy resulting in a singleton live birth. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to assess study quality.

Results

Ove

SUBMITTER: Phillips C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734267 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature