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Swee May Cripe1, Tu Thi Thanh Phung, Thi Phuong Lan Nguyen

  • 1Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. smtang@u.washington.edu

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
|June 9, 2007
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We investigated risk factors associated with stillbirths using personal interviews and medical records abstraction in a hospital-based case-control study in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam. There were 47 stillbirth cases and 365 controls in this study. Maternal education (< or =12 years) (Odds Ratio, OR = 3.07; 95% CI = 1.19-7.96), from rural communities (OR = 2.42; 95% CI = 1.16-5.03), primiparous (OR = 3.83; 95% CI = 1.10-13.40) and lack of prenatal care vitamins (OR = 2.56; 95% CI = 1.25-5.23) were statistically significant risk factors associated with stillbirth in an age-adjusted multivariable model. Our findings suggest that improved maternal health education and care in all communities may reduce the burden of fetal loss in this province.

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