title: [Prematurity risk according to prematurity risk score and postpartal morbidity of the newborn infants (author's transl)].
abstract: Risk of premature birth was evaluated retrospectively in 610 women in the first days after delivery using the prematurity risk score published by Thalhammer 1973. The calculated risk of premature birth was compared than prospectively to postpartal morbidity of the newborn infants as determined by duration of hospital stay, incidence of respiratory distress syndrome, need of artificial ventilation and mortality. A positive correlation could be found between risk of premature birth and postpartal morbidity of the newborn infants especially in small premature infants with birthweights of 2000 grams and less. The same correlation existed also in two groups of infants out of two different obstetric clinics which showed the same distribution of prenatal risks and the same prenatal care frequencies. It clearly becomes evident that infants with the same prenatal risks but good prenatal care during pregnancy had much lower hospital stays, lower respiratory distress frequencies and lower mortality rates than babies delivered from pregnancies badly cared for. These prenatal care related differences in postpartum morbidity again were much more evident in infants out of lower birth weight classes.
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007902:Length of Stay; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000592:standards*; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000209:etiology; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Pränatale Gefährdung gemessen am Frühgeburts-Risiko-Score und postnatale Morbidität.