Multiple pregnancies in Denmark 1980-1994 |
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Authors: | T Westergaard J Wohlfahrt P Aaby M Melbye |
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Affiliation: | Afdeling for Epidemiologisk Forskning, Statens Serum Institut, K?benhavn, . |
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Abstract: | The objective was to study trends in national rates of multiple pregnancies that were not explained by changes in maternal age and parity. Information on childbirths to Danish-born women were obtained from national registers. The national incidence of multiple pregnancies increased 1.7-fold during 1980-1994, the increase primarily in 1989-1994 and almost exclusively in primiparous women > or = 30 years, for whom the adjusted population-based twinning rate increased 2.7-fold and the triplet rate 9.1-fold. The proportion of multiple births among infant deaths in primiparous women > or = 30 years increased from 11.5% to 26.9%. In conclusion, the marked increase in the rate of multiple pregnancies, which in particular was observed during the 1990s and in primiparous women > or = 30 years, could not be explained by changes in maternal age or parity. Fertility-enhancing treatments are believed to have caused this increase. |
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