Secular trends in stillbirth by maternal socioeconomic status in Spain 2007-15: a population-based study of 4 million births.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Stillbirth, one of the urgent concerns of preventable perinatal deaths, has wide-reaching consequences for society. We studied secular stillbirth trends by maternal socioeconomic status (SES) in Spain. METHODS:We developed a population-based observational study, including 4 083 919 births during 2007-15. We estimate stillbirth rates and secular trends by maternal SES. We also evaluated the joint effect of maternal educational attainment and the Human Development Index (HDI) of women's country of origin on the risk of stillbirth. The data and statistical analysis can be accessed for reproducibility in a GitHub repository: https://github.com/migariane/Stillbirth. RESULTS:We found a consistent pattern of socioeconomic inequalities in the risk of delivering a stillborn, mainly cha

SUBMITTER: Luque-Fernandez MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6896972 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature