Smoking and other pre-gestational risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth

Smoking and other pre-gestational risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth

OBJECTIVES: to investigate pre-gestational risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth and, the role of smoking and its cumulative effects on prematurity. METHODS: a case-control study analyzed a data set of all births occurring in a tertiary maternity hospital between April 2002 and July 2004. Spont...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil 2011-12, Vol.11 (4), p.397-403
Hauptverfasser: Grillo, Eugênio, Freitas, Paulo Fontoura
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:OBJECTIVES: to investigate pre-gestational risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth and, the role of smoking and its cumulative effects on prematurity. METHODS: a case-control study analyzed a data set of all births occurring in a tertiary maternity hospital between April 2002 and July 2004. Spontaneous preterm births of single and live newborns without malformations were selected as cases. Controls were all the term births of live and single newborns without malformations during the same period. Three outcomes were studied: all preterm births (
ISSN:1519-3829
1806-9304
1519-3829
DOI:10.1590/S1519-38292011000400006