Abstract
Poor pregnancy outcome (PPO) is a top agenda item in health and political arenas. Most prominent PPOs are low birth weight (LBW) and preterm delivery (PTD). Effective interventions to maximize pregnancy outcome will diminish their negative impact. The placenta is a diary of the infant's prenatal experiences. Changes in the placenta provide clues to the uterine environment during the pregnancy. Each placental pathology represents a different insult, including severity, duration and type. The Collaborative Perinatal Project of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke was a longitudinal study of obstetric outcomes in women. The study was conducted from 1959 to 1966 and contains information for 53,518 pregnancies from 10,699 women, including examination of 31,494 placentas (59%). A nested case control study was conducted on this dataset. A sample of 7653 women of black and white races who had two pregnancies during the study period were examined to determine if a relationship existed between the recurrence of PPO and a recurrence of placental pathology.
Sigma Membership
Pi at-Large
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Case Study/Series
Research Approach
Advanced Analytics
Keywords:
Premature Babies, Maternal Self-care, Prenatal Smoking
Advisor
Helen Kohler
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Degree Year
1992
Recommended Citation
Krulewitch, Cara, "The relationship between recurrent placental pathology and recurrent poor pregnancy outcome" (2019). Dissertations. 253.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/253
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None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2019-08-28
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 9226211; ProQuest document ID: 304066055. The author still retains copyright.