Preterm delivery remains the primary public health challengein obstetrics. Infants who weigh less than 2500 g account for11 percent of all births in the United States but for more than90 percent of all neonatal deaths. Very-low-birth-weight infants,weighing between 500 g and 1500 g, account for approximately1 percent of all live births but more than 60 percent of allneonatal deaths. Forty percent of the very-low-birth-weightchildren who survive are burdened with long-term sequelae.
The majority of preterm deliveries are spontaneous, caused bypremature labor with or without premature rupture of the fetalmembranes. About 20 . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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