title: Risk factors associated with still births.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Still birth is a common adverse outcome of pregnancy, associated with many risk factors like prematurity, infection, birth injury, eclamptic disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  A hospital based, retrospective study was conducted at Patan Hospital in the year 2064. The number of still births and their associated risk factors were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were three thousand and five hundred and eighty eight deliveries. Among all deliveries, still birth cases were counted forty seven with a rate of 14 per thousand deliveries. The major risk factors were prematurity, low birth weight, fetal distress and maternal jaundice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prematurity was the commonest risk factor for still birth.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice and Emergency, Patan Hospital, Nepal. sitaram2051@gmail.com
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Yadav
mesh_terms: D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D009390:Nepal / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D050497:Stillbirth / Q000453:epidemiology*