Daily News: Miscarriage Increases Risk in Next Pregnancy
Saturday February 9, 2008
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Researchers studied 182 women in three groups — 30 who had a spontaneous second-trimester miscarriage, 76 who had a spontaneous preterm birth, and 76 who had full-term deliveries. All of the women had a subsequent pregnancy beyond 14 weeks’ gestation.
In the subsequent pregnancies, the frequency of second-trimester loss was highest — at 27% — in women who suffered a second-trimester loss in the first pregnancy.
Second-trimester loss in subsequent pregnancies for women who had spontaneous preterm birth was 3%, while the percentage was 1% in the full-term delivery group.
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