Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Walker, Kate F
• Bugg, George J
• Macpherson, Marion
• McCormick, Carol
• Grace, Nicky
• Wildsmith, Chris
• Bradshaw, Lucy
• Smith, Gordon C.S
• Thornton, James G

Titel

Randomized Trial of Labor Induction in Women 35 Years of Age or Older

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2016-03, Vol.374 (9), p.813-822

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This randomized trial comparing labor induction between 39 weeks 0 days and 39 weeks 6 days of gestation with expectant management showed no significant between-group difference in the rate of cesarean section. The trial was not powered to assess effects on stillbirth. The average age of women at childbirth in industrialized nations has been increasing steadily for approximately 30 years. 1 Between 1996 and 2006, births to women 35 years of age or older in the United Kingdom increased from 12% to 20% of all births. 2 In 2006, a total of 5.6% of live births in the United Kingdom were to nulliparous women 35 years of age or older. The risks of perinatal death, hypertensive disease, gestational diabetes mellitus, placenta previa, and placental abruption are higher among women 35 years of age or older than among younger women. 1 , 3 , 4 Older mothers are . . .