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OB: A Time To Be Born?From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Fri Jul 28 08:14:22 2000
Time of Birth may be related to an inordinate risk for adverse perinatal outcome. This from tomorrow's edition of British Medical Journal - Early neonatal mortality and asphyxia related deaths are greater for night births Studies from Wales and Scotland in 1998 showed a positive correlation between intrapartum asphyxia and night time births. Gunther et al investigated this relation through a retrospective cohort study of 380 980 births in Hesse, Germany, in 1990-8 (p 274). Their results confirm the previous studies, with babies born at night having a higher relative risk of early neonatal death (1.86) and asphyxia related death (3.89) than those born in the day. The authors speculate that the higher mortality might be caused by tired staff working at night after a full day's work. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7256/274 art
-- art fougner, md
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