1. Twin pregnancy
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Sparling Dw
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Pregnancy ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Obstetrics ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Mortality rate ,Significant difference ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,medicine.disease ,Infant mortality ,Medicine ,General hospital ,business ,Hospital service ,Twin Pregnancy - Abstract
In the past 18 years 192 sets of twins have been delivered on the obstetrical service of the Montreal General Hospital. This represents an incidence of 1 in 92 pregnancies. The gross perinatal mortality in the series was 14.0 per cent as compared with the hospital average for all deliveries during the same time, of 0.26 per cent. There appeared to be a higher perinatal mortality in boy babies, and where twins were of the same sex. There was no significant difference in mortality rates between first and second babies.
- Published
- 1964
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