ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2014
A triple risk model for unexplained late stillbirth.
Article in BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Modifying Maternal Sleep Position in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy With Positional Therapy: A Randomized Pilot Trial
A Maternal Device to Reduce the Risk of Stillbirth and Low Birth-Weight
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital - Global Innovations for Reproductive Health & Life Healthy Birth Weight Study: A Cross-Section
UniSA BackOff! Study: A Randomized, Controlled, Five-way, Cross-over Trial to Evaluate the Effect of a Positional Therapy Device on Maternal Sleeping Position in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Umbilical cord characteristics and their association with adverse pregnancy outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- A Position Modification Device for the Prevention of Supine Sleep During Pregnancy: A Randomised Crossover Trial.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Trial
- Modifying maternal sleep position in the third trimester of pregnancy with positional therapy: a randomised pilot trial.BMJ open · 2018Trial
- The Midland and North of England Stillbirth Study (MiNESS).BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2014Trial
- Stillbirth in pregnancies with flat OGTT: Placental clues to occult maternal dysmetabolism.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Article
- Genetics and Stillbirth.Clinics in perinatology · 2026Review
- Verbal Information From Parents About Stillbirth: The VIPS Study (Phase One).The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2025Article
- Focussing on the origins of preterm birth: Why understanding aetiology is critical to optimising outcomes.PLoS medicine · 2025Review
- The invisible killer: fetal vascular malperfusion in stillbirths without macroscopic cord abnormalities.Pathologica · 2025Article
- Insights into Reproductive Immunology and Placental Pathology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Epidemiology and placental pathology of intrauterine fetal demise in a tertiary hospital in the Philippines.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2024Article
- Syncytiotrophoblast Markers Are Downregulated in Placentas from Idiopathic Stillbirths.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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- Maternal Health after Stillbirth: Postpartum Hospital Readmission in California.American journal of perinatology · 2021Article
- Association between obstetric and medical risk factors and stillbirths in a low-income urban setting.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2021Article
- Anesthetic Management of the Pregnant Patient: Part 1.Anesthesia progress · 2021Review
- The effects of maternal position, in late gestation pregnancy, on placental blood flow and oxygenation: an MRI study.The Journal of physiology · 2021Article
- A Machine Learning Approach to Monitor the Emergence of Late Intrauterine Growth Restriction.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021Article
- Sleep in the Supine Position during Pregnancy Is Associated with Fetal Cerebral Redistribution.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe triple risk model for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been useful in understanding its pathogenesis. Risk factors for late stillbirth are well established, especially relating to maternal and fetal wellbeing. DISCUSSION: We propose a similar triple risk model for unexplained late stillbirth. The model proposed by us results from the interplay of three groups of factors: (1) maternal factors (such as maternal age, obesity, smoking), (2) fetal and placental factors (such as intrauterine growth retardation, placental insufficiency), and (3) a stressor (such as venocaval compression from maternal supine sleep position, sleep disordered breathing). We argue that the risk factors within each group in themselves may be insufficient to cause the death, but when they interrelate may produce a lethal combination. SUMMARY: Unexplained late stillbirth occurs when a fetus who is somehow vulnerable dies as a result of encountering a stressor and/or maternal condition in a combination which is lethal for them.
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