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© 1992 Oxford University Press

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Perinatal Mortality in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia

WALEED A MILAAT*, and CHARLES DU V FLOREY{dagger}

*Department of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care. The Medical School, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
{dagger}Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School Dundee DDI 9SY, UK

Reprint requests to: Dr Waked Milaat PO Box 984 Jeddah, 21421 Saudi Arabia

Milaat W A (Department of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, The Medical School, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Florey C du V. Perinatal mortality in Jeddeh, Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Epidemiology 1992; 21: 82–90.

The objective of the study was to estimate the pennatal mortality rate and to detemiine the antenatal and intrapartum risk factors associated with perinatal mortality in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A hospital-based, case-control study was carried out in a 40-week period in 1987–1988 in Jeddah at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital (MCH). The subjects comprised 323 perinatal deaths and 488 controls.

The perinatal mortality rate (PMR) for Jeddah showed a decline from 42.5 in Islamic Calendar Year 1393H (1973) and 49.5 in 1400H (1979–1980) to 31.4 per 1000 live and stillbirths in 1408H (1987–1988). The risk factors independently associated with perinatal death included low birth weight, complications during labour, ethnic origin and mother's age being 35 and over. In addition to lethal deformities, direct causes of pennatal death were related to low birthweight, mechanical causes, antepartum haemorrhage and neonatal infection. No antenatal care was received by 36.5% of both cases and controls.

The high mortality and the failure to attend for antenatal care suggest a need for closer surveillance of women throughout their pregnancies and for improvements in both obstetric services and neonatal management.

Received 1 July 1991


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