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Article: High rates of congenital syphilis in Russia linked to inadequate prenatal care.(Digests)
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- Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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The incidence of congenital syphilis, which is largely preventable, is high in the Russian Federation. (1) Because many infected pregnant women are treated inadequately or too late in their pregnancy, 64% deliver babies with presumptive or confirmed congenital syphilis. According to a review of records from five maternity hospitals in the Russian Federation, the odds of delivering a baby with congenital syphilis are elevated among infected women who go without prenatal care (odds ratio, 2.8) and among those who are first tested for syphilis at 28 weeks' gestation or later (4.0). Overall, 26% of the infants of women with untreated or inadequately treated syphilis die ...