Sentences with phrase «twin birth rate»

The twin birth rate in the U.S. has surged over the last 30 years, mostly because of reproductive technologies including in vitro fertilization.

For that reason, many physicians and public health officials consider technology's artificial contribution to the soaring twin birth rate to be problematic.

«In vitro fertilization, often cited for high twin birth rate, could reduce it.»

«Combining a direct path to IVF with the judicious use of superovulation / IUI should go a long way toward curtailing the national twin birth rate,» Adashi wrote.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed Dec. 23, 2015, that the nation reached a record high twin birth rate of 33.9 per 1,000 live births in 2014.

By 2009, that number had risen to one in 30, which means that over three decades, the twin birth rate (number of twins per 1,000 births) rose 76 %.

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The rate of twin births in the United States has increased nearly 80 % since 1980, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most of that increase occurred between 1980 and 2009, when the rate of twin births rose 76 %.

The Yoruba tribe in Nigeria has the highest rate of twin births in the world.

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

The rate of twin births has risen 79 percent over the last three decades, and continues to increase.

Post-term births had a death rate twice that of other home births, and home birth mortality was 1 in 14 for breech presentation and 1 in 7 for twins.

But the increase in the multiple birth rate means not just more twins, but also higher order multiples, such as triplets, quadruplets and the like.

The rate of twin, triplet, and high - order births began to climb in the 1980s, especially among white non-Hispanic women age 25 and over due to the use of fertility drugs and assisted reproduction techniques.

Physician - and midwife - attended home births: effects of breech, twin, and post-dates outcome data on mortality rates.

If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife - led birth centers, the nation's C - section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current twin trend of rising health care expenditures and numbers of cesarean deliveries.

The generally accepted multiple birth rates are based on all twins and do not distinguish between monozygotic (identical) and multizygotic (fraternal) twins.

There is plenty of statistical data and information about twinning and the multiple birth rate.

I pulled neonatal mortality rates from the Wonder Database, searching for criteria that matches the MANA study as closely as possible (White women, Singles and twins, 37 weeks and above, Birth weight of 2500 grams or more, Live birth through 27 days, Years 2004 - 2009; it includes everything else: all ages, all education levels, all marital statuses, Birth weight of 2500 grams or more, Live birth through 27 days, Years 2004 - 2009; it includes everything else: all ages, all education levels, all marital statuses, birth through 27 days, Years 2004 - 2009; it includes everything else: all ages, all education levels, all marital statuses, etc).

Danielle, thanks for laying it all out there, but can you explain why you compared the intrapartum fetal mortality rate for the Birth Center study, which had no twins, a handful of surprise breeches (most of which were probably transported to the hospital as soon as they were discovered) and another handful of VBACs because all of these are disallowed in accredited birth centers per AABC's & CABC's rules (I read the study)... and compared it to MANA's intrapartum rate for the group that contained a load of VBACs, breeches and twins that comprised nearly 10 % of the total saBirth Center study, which had no twins, a handful of surprise breeches (most of which were probably transported to the hospital as soon as they were discovered) and another handful of VBACs because all of these are disallowed in accredited birth centers per AABC's & CABC's rules (I read the study)... and compared it to MANA's intrapartum rate for the group that contained a load of VBACs, breeches and twins that comprised nearly 10 % of the total sabirth centers per AABC's & CABC's rules (I read the study)... and compared it to MANA's intrapartum rate for the group that contained a load of VBACs, breeches and twins that comprised nearly 10 % of the total sample?

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In recent years, doctors have cut the number of implantations down to two in most cases, reducing the incidence of triplets and quadruplets, but increasing the rate of twin births.

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

Controlling for influences such as maternal age, multiple births (twins, triplets), pregnancy complications, prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy terminations, researchers analyzed data from nearly 6 million Canadian births from 1990 to 2011 and found that folic acid food fortification was associated with an 11 percent reduction in rates of congenital heart defects overall.

When the outcome of the treatment was cross-checked against the BMI of the egg recipient, results showed that the rates of embryo implantation, pregnancy, twin pregnancy and live birth were all significantly reduced as BMI increased.

Even after adjusting for maternal age, the rate of twin births rose 1.6 times between 1971 and 2009, the authors reported.

For preterm and very preterm ART twins, the rates improved from 50 % (ART) versus 42 % (spontaneously conceived twins) for preterm twins and 8.5 % versus 7 % for very preterm twins in 1988 - 1992, to 47 % versus 44 % for preterm births and 8.6 % versus 8 % for very preterm births in 2003 - 2007.

The rates of ART singletons born small for gestational age (SGA) more than halved between 1988 - 1992 and 2003 - 2007, falling from 7.6 % to 3.2 %, while the rates of SGA births among ART twins fell from 17 % to 14 %.

The finding may help explain the strange 60 percent surge in the rate of twin births in the United States between 1977 and 2002.

It found that there was no statistically significant difference in the probability of a woman giving birth to a healthy baby (or twins)-- the cumulative delivery rate (CDR)-- after the legislation came in to force.

«The higher rate of twins and preterm birth in ART singletons might have given rise to lower academic test scores.

The hormone content in milk may explain why women who drink it appear to have five times the rate of twin births compared with women who do not drink milk.

The birth of twins is extremely rare in the equine world; Survival rates of a mare and both foals during birth is about 1 in 10,000.

Typical twin concordance rates for adolescent delinquency are 87 % for monozygotic twins and 72 % for dizygotic twins.11 Adoption studies suggest that genetically vulnerable children - that is, children whose birth parents were antisocial - may be especially susceptible to unfavourable family conditions, so that an interaction is seen (fig 12 The genetic element seems to be stronger for adult criminality than childhood conduct disorder and delinquency.13 To understand what these environmental and genetic factors might be, we need to turn to other studies.