Miscarriage

Miscarriage


How frequently do miscarriages occur?

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Authors:

Wilcox AJ. Weinberg CR. O'Connor JF. Baird DD. Schlatterer JP. Canfield RE. Armstrong EG. Nisula BC.

Institution:

Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; United States.

Title:

Incidence of early loss of pregnancy (1988-941).

Source:

New England Journal of Medicine. Vol 319(4) (pp89-194), 1988.

Abstract:

We studied the risk of early loss of pregnancy by collecting daily urine specimens from 221 healthy women who were attempting to conceive. Urinary concentrations of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) were measured for a total of 707 menstrual cycles with use of an immunoradiometric assay that is able to detect hCG levels as low as 0.01 ng per milliliter, with virtually 100 percent specificity for hCG in the presence of luteinizing hormone. Our criteria for early pregnancy - an hCG level above 0.025 ng per milliliter on three consecutive days - was determined after we compared the hCG levels in the study group with the levels in a comparable group of 28 women who had undergone sterilization by tubal ligation. We identified 198 pregnancies by an increase in the hCG level near the expected time of implantation. Of these, 22 percent ended before pregnancy was detected clinically. Most of these early pregnancy losses would not have been detectable by the less sensitive assays for hCG used in earlier studies. The total rate of pregnancy loss after implantation, including clinically recognized spontaneous abortions, was 31 percent. Most of the 40 women with unrecognized early pregnancy losses had normal fertility, since 95 percent of them subsequently became clinically pregnant within two years.


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