preterm

All those other countries have very comparable preterm infant mortality rates when measured against the US.

In women, smoking can lead to reduced fertility, complications during pregnancy, and increased risks of preterm delivery and low birth weight.

To understand what's at risk, being born preterm is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as lower achievement in general.

Pregnant women in fluoridated communities have better oral health, which directly correlates with improved birth outcomes and reduced risk of preterm labor.

The conflict probably shapes the rate of preterm birth quite a bit.

Isn't a preterm baby which fails to survive exactly the kind of event that wouldn't be documented as an infant mortality at all in a less rigorous country?

Heart disease, respiratory infections, chronic lung disease, cancers, preterm births [1].

For example, trying to compare things like medical support for preterm babies to medical support of coma patients to investigate the logic behind viable fetuses vs various life support methods, etc.

Sorry to flog a job opening so shamelessly, but I'm a research scientist at Vanderbilt University working on the evolution of human pregnancy with an emphasis on identifying the causes of preterm birth.

The first is a Pregnancy Class D drug (some reports of human birth defects), and the two are class C (birth defects only in animal studies) A study on azathioprine use in early pregnancy found an increased risk of congenital malformations which wasn't statistically significant (from 4.7% to 6.2%), and an association with preterm birth and low-weight[1].

But a later meta-analysis concluded only the increased risk of preterm birth was significant for this class of drugs[2] It's mentioned in the article that the mother developed pre-eclampsia (simply put, hypertension during pregnancy, which can lead to eclampsia, with seizures and coma).

The rate of gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension and preterm delivery was higher among women who fasted (17% vs 14%, 7% vs 2%, 9% vs 9%) respectively, compared to non-fasting women, but were not found statistically significant.

Mawson et al., “Preterm Birth, Vaccination and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study of 6- to 12-Year-Old Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children,” Journal of Translational Science 3, no.

Illicit drug use during pregnancy is a major risk factor for maternal morbidity and neonatal complications." re: [3] "Cocaine use during pregnancy was associated with significantly higher odds of preterm birth" re: [4] "Prenatal cocaine exposure is significantly associated with preterm birth, low birthweight, and small for gestational age infants.

I shared this on Facebook, and my friend who's a perinatologist (a sub-specialist who takes care of moms delivering preterm, moms w severe medical conditions (lupus, kidney failure, heart failure) and fetuses with problems (birth defects, fetuses who need transfusions for anemia) commented, saying, "The fetus is the most successful parasite known to man.