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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-11-21
pubmed:abstractText
The incidence of spontaneous abortions was observed among 31,917 women followed from their first prenatal visit. Life-table analysis showed that losses in the first trimester were not significantly affected by previous induced abortions, nor was any change in the risk of second-trimester losses detected among the 1493 parous women who reported having had induced abortions after childbirth. There was, however, an increase in the incidence of midtrimester losses among the 2019 nulliparous women with previous induced abortions; the age-adjusted rate of loss was 59.9 per 100,000 women at risk per day, as compared with 24.2 among the 12,042 control nulliparous women (P less than 0.001). The relative risk increased with the number of previous induced abortions and was not explained by the distribution of demographic and social variables. The risk decreased from 3.27 (95 per cent confidence limits, 1.72 to 6.23) after abortions induced before 1973, mainly by dilation and curettage, to 1.42 (0.76 to 2.65) after those done since 1973, when the more gentle technic of cervical dilation by use of laminaria was introduced. These findings indicate that there is little or no risk of spontaneous abortions after induced abortions when performed by current technics.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0028-4793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
301
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
677-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
A prospective study of spontaneous fetal losses after induced abortions.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.