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The Effects of Maternal Age, Parity, and Sex of the Twins on Twin Perinatal Mortality. A Population Based Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

H. Rydhström
H. Rydhström*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Lund, Sweden
*
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden

Abstract

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The aim of this study on all twin births in Sweden between 1973 and 1985 was to evaluate the effect of maternal age, parity, and sex on twin perinatal mortality (PNM), by using national data held at the Medical Birth Registry, National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm. Zygosity in this study was estimated by the Hardy-Weinberg formula. In all, 22,374 twins were born; 972 (4.3%) of these died perinatally. The relative risk for perinatal death (after standardization for maternal age, parity, and like sex) decreased significantly during the study period, and reached its lowest value (0.3) in 1983. Maternal age was not associated with PNM, while women having their first delivery had a significantly higher PNM than the rest of the parturients. The MZ twinning rate increased fom 0.36% during 1973-76, to 0.40% during 1977-81 and 0.44% during 1982-85 (trend analysis: χ2 = 40.1, p < 0.001). After stratification for year of delivery and birthweight, like-sexed twins had a significantly higher PNM than unlike-sexed twins (odds ratio, OR = 1.25, 95% confidence interval, CI = 1.02-1.54). Males had a significantly higher PNM than females in like-sexed pairs (OR = 1.39, 95% CI = 1.16-1.66), and in unlike-sexed pairs (OR = 1.46, 95% CI = 1.01-2.10). MZ twins had a significantly higher estimated PNM than DZ ones (OR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.02-1.67).

Keywords

Perinatal mortalityMaternal ageParityTwinning rate
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 401 - 408
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1990

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