Stillbirths among Advanced Maternal Age Women in the United States: 2003-2017

Deepa Dongarwar, MS; Anjali Aggarwal, MD; Kenneth Barning, MD; Hamisu Mohammed Salihu, MD, PhD

doi:10.21106/ijma.346

International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (Feb 2020)

Stillbirths among Advanced Maternal Age Women in the United States: 2003-2017

Deepa Dongarwar, MS,
Anjali Aggarwal, MD,
Kenneth Barning, MD,
Hamisu Mohammed Salihu, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Deepa Dongarwar, MS: Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Anjali Aggarwal, MD: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Kenneth Barning, MD: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Hamisu Mohammed Salihu, MD, PhD: Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21106/ijma.346
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1

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The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between fetal stillbirth and advanced maternal age in the United States (US). This was a population-based study using the Natality and Fetal Death datasets for the years 2003-2017. We built Cox proportional regression models to examine the likelihood of stillbirth among women aged ?40 years. Out of a total of 57,273,305 births, stillbirth was observed in 302,522, yielding a stillbirth rate of 5 per 1000. After adjusting for confounders, women of advanced age (?40 years) had a 40-50% greater risk of stillbirth compared to women 20-29 years of age. Keywords: • Advanced maternal age • Stillbirth • Cox proportional regression • United States Copyright © 2020 Dongarwar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published in International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS

ISSN: 2161-8674 (Print); 2161-864X (Online)
Publisher: Global Health and Education Projects, Inc.
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
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