Short interpregnancy intervals and adverse maternal outcomes in high-resource settings: An updated systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Currently, no federal guidelines provide recommendations on healthy birth spacing for women in the United States. This systematic review summarises associations between short interpregnancy intervals and adverse maternal outcomes to inform the development of birth spacing recommendations for the United States.

Methods

PubMed/Medline, POPLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and a previous systematic review were searched to identify relevant articles published from 1 January 2006 and 1 May 2017. Included studies reported maternal health outcomes following a short versus longer interpregnancy interval, were conducted in high-resource settings, and adjusted estimates for at least maternal age. Two investigators independently assessed stud

SUBMITTER: Hutcheon JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7380038 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature