Burden of early-term birth on adverse infant outcomes: a population-based cohort study in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the national rate of early-term live births in Brazil and to evaluate the effect of birth at 37 and 38 weeks' gestation, as compared with 39 and 40 weeks' gestation on infant outcomes according to precursors of birth and the existence of maternal/fetal medical conditions.

Design

National perinatal population-based cohort study.

Setting

266 maternity services located in the five Brazilian macroregions.

Participants

18 652 singleton live newborns from 37 0/7 to 40 6/7 weeks of gestation.

Main outcome measures

Resuscitation in delivery room, oxygen therapy, transient tachypnoea, admission to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), hypoglycaemia, use of antibiotics, phototherapy, phototherapy after hospital discharge, neonatal death and b

SUBMITTER: Leal MDC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770827 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature