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It has become almost a platitude to lament the complexity and intractability of the problem of preterm delivery, the poor predictive value of screening tests for its occurrence, its resistance to attempted interventions, and its increasing rate.¹ Preterm delivery is more common among blacks, the poor, the unmarried, cigarette smokers, underweight women, women with multiple gestations, women with uterine anomalies, women with a history of previous preterm delivery, and women without prenatal care. Although the perinatal mortality rate due to prematurity has decreased dramatically during the past three decades, this reduction has resulted from improvements in perinatal and pediatric care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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