Premature labor, premature rupture of membranes, diabetes, and blood pressure disorders are far more likely in twin
gestations than singletons.
Not exact matches
Women who started birth at home were on average older, of a lower socioeconomic status and higher educational achievement, and less likely to be African - American or Hispanic
than women having full
gestation, vertex,
singleton hospital births in the United States in 2000.
These studies also found that women with twin
gestations did not incur any greater risk of uterine rupture or maternal or perinatal morbidity
than those with a
singleton gestation (96, 97).
«Twin pregnancies are at substantially higher risk of early preterm birth
than singleton pregnancies and this risk is inversely related to sonographically measured cervical length at 20 - 24 weeks»
gestation,» explained lead investigator Kypros H Nicolaides, MD, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London.
David N. Figlio, Ph.D., of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and coauthors analyzed Florida birth certificates linked to Florida public school records for more
than 1.4 million
singleton births with 37 to 41 weeks of
gestation.