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Spontaneous Abortions: Epidemiology

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Between 10% and 20% of recognised pregnancies are spontaneously aborted, mostly some time after fetal death has occurred. The actual level of loss described varies with the definitions and methods of ascertainment used, and with the characteristics of the population under study. Embryonic losses in the earliest, clinically unrecognised, stages of pregnancy are considerably more common, but until recently their frequency could only be guessed at. Better estimates are now becoming possible using information from studies of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and from the use of very sensitive early pregnancy tests.

Keywords

  • Chromosomal Anomaly
  • Spontaneous Abortion
  • Environmental Hazard
  • Maternal Smoking
  • Fetal Death

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  1. Center for Biomedical Research and Toxicology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32303, USA

    Isabel Stabile PhD, MRCOG

  2. Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, E1 1BB, UK

    Isabel Stabile PhD, MRCOG & J. G. Grudzinskas MD, FRCOG, FRACOG & 

  3. Academic Unit of Reproductive Physiology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, EC1A 7BE, UK

    T. Chard MD, FRCOG

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Alberman, E. (1992). Spontaneous Abortions: Epidemiology. In: Stabile, I., Grudzinskas, J.G., Chard, T. (eds) Spontaneous Abortion. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1918-0_2

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