title: Analysis of ante-partum maternal morbidity in rural Bangladesh.
abstract: This paper presents the results of a prospective study of maternal morbidity during the ante-partum period in rural areas of Bangladesh. The data came from a survey of Maternal Morbidity in Bangladesh, conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Research for Promotion of Essential and Reproductive Health and Technologies (BIRPERHT) during the period from November 1992 to December 1993. Since then no such national level survey has been conducted in Bangladesh. This paper employs multiple-decrement life table technique, a convenient way of analysing the risks of different types of disease conditions that women experience during the antenatal period for different age categories. The high-risk complications such as ante-partum haemorrhage, excessive vomiting, fits/convulsion and oedema were considered in this study. In this study a cause specific model was applied to explore the differences in the risks exerted at different ages of reproductive life attributable to some selected complications of pregnancy. The results of this study indicate that women of age 25-29 years are less susceptible to most of the selected life-threatening and high-risk complications during pregnancy such as haemorrhage, fits/convulsion and oedema. However, younger women (age < 25 years) are more likely to have excessive vomiting during pregnancy, and older women (age > or = 30 years) are at greater risk of haemorrhage, fits/convulsion and oedema.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Nitai
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: M Ataharul
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: Rafiqul Islam
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
authors.forename: Wasimul
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bari
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D003906:Developing Countries; D004487:Edema / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015993:Life Tables; D008423:Maternal Age; D009017:Morbidity; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012423:Rural Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012640:Seizures / Q000453:epidemiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014839:Vomiting / Q000453:epidemiology