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. 1986 Aug;76(8):986–991. doi: 10.2105/ajph.76.8.986

Characteristics of women with recurrent spontaneous abortions and women with favorable reproductive histories.

B Strobino, H E Fox, J Kline, Z Stein, M Susser, D Warburton
PMCID: PMC1646627  PMID: 3728772

Abstract

Women with a history of recurrent spontaneous abortions (repeaters) are compared with women who have had live births and no spontaneous abortions (multiparae) and women who have had live births and only one spontaneous abortion (sporadics) to identify characteristics of the women and their abortuses that might predict subsequent fetal loss. A number of risk factors for recurrent spontaneous abortion have been identified: the loss of a chromosomally normal conception, loss after the first trimester of pregnancy, a delay in conceiving prior to the study pregnancy, a diagnosis of cervical incompetence, and a history of very low birthweight deliveries. The odds ratios associated with being a repeater vary from 1.4 to 5.6 depending on the number of characteristics present.

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