Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Stressful Life Events May Increase Stillbirth Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130327133702.htm

sciencedaily.com | Mar 27th 2013

— Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study.

Stillbirth is the death of a fetus at 20 or more weeks of pregnancy. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2006, there was one stillbirth for every 167 births.

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