TY - JOUR
T1 - Reproductive outcomes in scoliosis patients
AU - Visscher, Wendy
AU - Lonstein, John E.
AU - Hoffman, Daniel A.
AU - Mandel, Jack S.
AU - Benjamin, Benjamin S.
PY - 1988/10
Y1 - 1988/10
N2 - In a retrospective cohort study of 1,409 persons diagnosed with scoliosis between 1927 and 1965 In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, mailed questionnaires were obtained for 846 white women. Six hundred and eight (72%) of these women had ever been pregnant, and they reported a total of 1,733 pregnancies and 1,413 llveblrths. Adverse outcomes among the pregnancies and llveblrths of the 608 women were reported, including spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, low birth weight, prematurity, congenital anomalies, and complications of pregnancy or delivery. Rates of these events for the scoliosis patients were compared with corresponding expected rates. Comparison of the overall rates suggested that the scoliosis patients had more premature births than expected,' but their rates of other adverse reproductive events did not differ from expected.
AB - In a retrospective cohort study of 1,409 persons diagnosed with scoliosis between 1927 and 1965 In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, mailed questionnaires were obtained for 846 white women. Six hundred and eight (72%) of these women had ever been pregnant, and they reported a total of 1,733 pregnancies and 1,413 llveblrths. Adverse outcomes among the pregnancies and llveblrths of the 608 women were reported, including spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, low birth weight, prematurity, congenital anomalies, and complications of pregnancy or delivery. Rates of these events for the scoliosis patients were compared with corresponding expected rates. Comparison of the overall rates suggested that the scoliosis patients had more premature births than expected,' but their rates of other adverse reproductive events did not differ from expected.
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Premature birth
KW - Scoliosis patients
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U2 - 10.1097/00007632-198810000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00007632-198810000-00006
M3 - Article
C2 - 3206266
AN - SCOPUS:0023768776
SN - 0362-2436
VL - 13
SP - 1096
EP - 1098
JO - Spine
JF - Spine
IS - 10
ER -