Long-term maternal mortality risk following spontaneous preterm birth: A retrospective cohort study.

To determine whether women with spontaneous preterm birth (PTB) have increased risks for long-term mortality. Retrospective cohort. Births in Utah between 1939 and 1977. We included women with a singleton live birth ≥20 weeks who survived at least 1 year following delivery. We excluded those who had never lived in Utah, had improbable birthweight/gestational age combinations, underwent induction (except for preterm membrane rupture) or had another diagnosis likely to cause PTB. Exposed women had ≥1 spontaneous PTB between 20 Overall and cause-specific mortality risks were compared using Cox regression. We included 29 048 exposed and 57 992 matched unexposed women. There were 3551 deaths among exposed (12.2%) and 6013 deaths among unexposed women (10.4%). Spontaneous PTB was associated with all-cause mortality (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 1.26, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.21-1.31), death from neoplasms (aHR 1.10, 95% CI 1.02-1.18), circulatory disease (aHR 1.35, 95% CI 1.25-1.46), respiratory disease (aHR 1.73, 95% CI 1.46-2.06), digestive disease (aHR 1.33, 95% CI 1.12-1.58), genito-urinary disease (aHR 1.60, 95% CI 1.15-2.23) and external causes (aHR 1.39, 95% CI 1.22-1.58). Spontaneous PTB is associated with modestly increased risks for all-cause and some cause-specific mortality.

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