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Article: Preterm birth foreshadowed by more intense vaginal bleeding during pregnancy.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- September 16, 2004
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2004 SEP 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More intense vaginal bleeding during pregnancy is linked with preterm birth, particularly in white women, a recent study suggests.
J. Yang and associates with the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program "investigated the relation between self-reported vaginal bleeding during pregnancy and preterm birth in a prospective cohort of 2,829 pregnant women enrolled from prenatal clinics between 1995 and 2000 in central North Carolina."
"The overall association between vaginal bleeding and preterm birth was modest (risk ratio (RR)=1.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1, 1.6). Bleeding in the first trimester only was ...