Risk factors associated with still births
Shrestha, S.R.; Yadav, B.K.
Jnma; Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 49(177): 84-87
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2715 PMID: 21180228 Document Number: 537456
Still birth is a common adverse outcome of pregnancy, associated with many risk factors like prematurity, infection, birth injury, eclamptic disorders. A hospital based, retrospective study was conducted at Patan Hospital in the year 2064. The number of still births and their associated risk factors were assessed. There were three thousand and five hundred and eighty eight deliveries. Among all deliveries, still birth cases were counted forty seven with a rate of 14 per thousand deliveries. The major risk factors were prematurity, low birth weight, fetal distress and maternal jaundice. Prematurity was the commonest risk factor for still birth.