Fetal mortality in Ribeirão Preto city, Brazil, 1991 and 1992

Abstract

A total of 299 fetal death occured in the Municipality of Ribeirão Preto in 1991/92, 165 in 1991 and 134 in 1992, 148 of which were boys and 134 were girls, 21 of unknown sex, and 15 not declared. The fetal death from other municipalities correspondend to 39,8% of this total. Birth weight was not declared on 103 Declarations. The durantion of gestation was 28 or more weeks in 142 cases (47,5%), 20 to 27 weeks in 52 (17,4%), and this information had not been filled or was marked as unknown in 105 cases (35,3%). A single gestation was pointed out in 46,8% of cases and was not declared in 46,5%. Intrauterine hypoxia was indicated as underying causa in 41,8% of cases.