ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health1991
Is preterm delivery still related to physical working conditions in pregnancy?
Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 1991. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Work activities and risk of prematurity, low birth weight and pre-eclampsia: an updated review with meta-analysis.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2013Pooled it
- Risk of prematurity, low birthweight and pre-eclampsia in relation to working hours and physical activities: a systematic review.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007Pooled it
- Prevalence of Preterm Birth Rate During COVID-19 Lockdown in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Riyadh.Cureus · 2021Article
- Occupational lifting, fetal death and preterm birth: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort using a job exposure matrix.PloS one · 2014Article
- Physical activity and preterm birth: a literature review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2009Review
- Maternal work and birth outcome disparities.Maternal and child health journal · 2008Article
- Employment, working conditions, and preterm birth: results from the Europop case-control survey.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2004Article
- Pregnancy related sickness absence in a Swedish county, 1985-87.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1994Article
- Association of maternal work with adverse perinatal outcome.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
- Employment-related stress and preterm delivery: a contextual examination.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveThe aim was to determine the relationship between working conditions during pregnancy, women's occupation, and preterm birth.
designThis was a retrospective survey.
settingThe study was carried out in four public maternity units in France in 1987 and 1988. SUBJECTS: 1949 women were interviewed after the delivery during their stay in hospital. Of these, 1002 held a job during pregnancy, but this report is confined to 875 women who had a single live birth and who had worked for more than the first trimester of pregnancy. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsInformation about social and occupational status was obtained through interviews, and data about gestational length were obtained from medical records. The primary results showed that preterm birth did not vary significantly according to working conditions whereas it differed according to occupational group.
conclusionsOccupation, but not working conditions, affected the incidence of preterm birth. This result is discordant with other studies which underlined the excess of preterm births among women with strenuous working conditions. Reasons for this discrepancy may include (1) change in perception of "strenuous working conditions"; (2) improved working conditions; (3) the development of "preventive" strategies by pregnant women. Occupation is a more reliable indicator of risk than self described working conditions.
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