Trends in Stillbirths and Stillbirth Phenotypes in the United States: An Analysis of 131.5 Million Births

Authors

  • Deepa Dongarwar, MS Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Anjali Aggarwal, MD Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Kenneth Barning, MD Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Hamisu Mohammed Salihu, MD, PhD Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21106/ijma.344

Keywords:

Trends in stillbirth, Stillbirth phenotypes, Stillbirth in US

Abstract

We examined the trends in stillbirth across gestational age in the United States (US).We conducted a trend analysis using the U.S. Natality and Fetal Death datasets covering 1982 and 2017. We compared the incidence and rates of stillbirth for term, all preterm, moderate-to-late preterm, very preterm, and extreme preterm phenotypes. The incidence of stillbirth decreased for the entire birth cohort over the 36-year period. The rates of overall, term, all preterm, very preterm and moderate-to-late preterm stillbirth decreased from 1982 to 2017; however, the rates for extreme preterm stillbirth increased by about 7.6% over the same study period.

 

Copyright © 2020 Dongarwar et al. Published by Global Health and Education Projects, Inc. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0.

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Vol. 9 No. 1

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Short Research Communication

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