This study was undertaken at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Inje University, Sanggye Paik Hospital, to investigate the association between some of the risk factor and the incidence of fetal growth retardation.
The studied population were selected from patients who admitted at Sanggye Paik Hospital during period of 1991 through 1993, with following criteria; Korean, singletone pregnancy with live birth and known gestational weeks with 32 or more.
And then, the risk factors were analyzed in terms of maternal factor, placental factor and the fetal factor. The following results were obtained.
The incidence rate for IUGR during period of 1991 through 1993 was 10.45%.
The increased incidence rates of IUGR were shown in the group of teenaged mother, primigravida and old aged mother.
Only 40% of etiologic factors for the IUGR were found to have known causes.
The risk factors of the IUGR, such as hypertensive disorder during pregnancy, anemia, pulmonary tuberculosis, cardiac disease were associated with the increased incidence.
The relative risk of IUGR was much higher in neonates born with congenital anomalies.
But there was not association between placental casues such as placenta previa and abruptio placenta and IUGR.
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