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Deborah B Nelson¹, Jeane Ann Grisso, Marshall M Joffe

¹Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6021, USA. dnelson@cceb.med.upenn.edu

Fertility and Sterility

|November 11, 2003

Objective:

To examine the relationship between physical violence, controlling behavior, and spontaneous abortion (SAB).

Design:

Nested case-control study.

Setting:

Emergency department of a university hospital.

Patient(S):

One thousand one hundred ninety-nine pregnant women.

Main Outcome Measurement(S):

Physical violence and controlling behavior.

Result(S):

Cases experienced a SAB (n = 392) and controls maintained their pregnancy through 22 weeks (n = 807). Fifteen percent of women reported violence during the pregnancy, and 49% had reported one or more past episodes of violence. We found no relationship between any measure of physical violence (past, current, or by perpetrator) and the risk of SAB.

Conclusion(S):

Although physical violence was very prevalent in the study population, exposure to violence did not influence the risk of SAB.

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