Identifying the risk of a premature delivery can help reduce health care costs and infant deaths, the companies said.
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Most of the women in the study were at high risk because they had had at least one premature delivery.
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Many experts now conclude that stress causes release of hormones that weaken the uterus, leading to premature delivery or mortality.
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Some premature deliveries are caused by medical conditions like infections that would not be predictable by hormone levels, Smith said.
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Moving up the expected delivery date of multiple-fetus pregnancies, the researchers said, could alleviate considerable anxiety among mothers concerned about premature delivery.
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These include IVF-associated risks such as multiple pregnancy, pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, premature delivery, operative delivery and infants displaying low birth weight.
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The term has also been used by fertility clinics to address fertility problems, recurrent miscarriages, premature deliveries and dangerous complications such as pre-eclampsia.
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Reducing the rate of premature deliveries, currently at 10 percent in this country, would bring enormous savings in both medical costs and anguish.
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Q . If we know so much about what is going wrong in premature deliveries, why haven't attempts to prevent them been successful?
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When The Journal of Periodontology reported a sevenfold increase of premature deliveries among pregnant women with severe gum disease, many periodontists were stunned.
