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Being South Asian is as great a risk factor for stillbirth as smoking

  • Written by Miranda Davies-Tuck, Perinatal Epidemiologist and NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
imageWe need to change the way we monitor the pregnancies of women born in South Asia to reduce their chance of a stillbirth.from www.shutterstock.com

Australian women born in South Asia are more likely to have a stillbirth than other women, perhaps due to a rapidly ageing placenta that cannot support the pregnancy, new research suggests.

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