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Perinatal Mortality in Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

P.P.S. Nylander
P.P.S. Nylander*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Abstract

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A study of perinatal mortality in twins has been carried out concurrently in Ibadan, Nigeria, and Aberdeen, Scotland. In both areas perinatal mortality rates have been found to be four times higher in twins than in singletons, reaching up to 310 per 1000 in the monochorionic group in Ibadan. Moreover, rates have been found to increase considerably with maternal age and parity.

Keywords

Twin pregnancyPerinatal mortalityMonochorionic twinsMaternal ageParity
Type
Session IV: Outcome of Twin Pregnancy
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 363 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1979

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