Sentence examples for maternity population from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the general maternity population, maternal age, parity, obesity, ethnicity, and socioeconomic deprivation were not independently associated with adverse outcome (Table 3).

The distribution of maternal age among the mothers having perinatal deaths is skewed towards advanced maternal age compared with the general maternity population.

Women with disability have been to some extent an invisible population within the broader maternity population.

Objective To assess the main risk factors associated with stillbirth in a multiethnic English maternity population.

This finding is consistent with previous studies examining variation in caesarean section rates for other subgroups of the maternity population [ 11, 38].

Based on changes in the risk profile of the maternity population, the pregnancy hypertension rate was predicted to increase to 10.5% (figure 1).

Results will have external validity, as the technique may be easily applied to maternity populations outside Australia.

Selection criteria were general maternity populations or women of childbearing age (15 to 49 years) taking part in a community-level intervention.

The maternity populations ranged in size from an average of 25 000 per annum (pa) in Western Australia to 100 000 pa in Sweden (table 1).

Due to increasing incidence of obesity in maternity populations, a better understanding of the combined effects of obesity and ethnic groups are required to inform guideline development and provide appropriate care for all populations [ 25].

The Dutch maternity health care system provides a very suitable setting to study a homogeneous low-risk pregnancy population.