المخاض المبكر في مشفى التوليد الجامعي – جامعة دمشق دراسة مقارنة الحالة والشاهد

Background & Objective: Preterm labor is still has the main cause of preterm birth. The aim of this study to know the rate of this complication in our hospital, and the relation between preterm labor and some risk factors like parity ,maternal age and multiple pregnancy, and the relation between premature labor and gestational age, gestational Wight and apgar`s score . Material&methods: This study is a case-control study was done in department of obstetrics and gynecology, Damascus. It`s involved 653 women was diagnosed as preterm labor (study group) and 100 women as (control group). Results: the prevalence of preterm labor in our hospital was 6.5% ,while the average age were 21-30 years (53.9%), about 56.7% of patients have children between 1-5 , while the gestational age of 45% were more than 34 week, and the gestational weight was more than 1500 g in 70% of patients. Conclusion: our rate was accepted if we compare with other studies, but the relation with some factors like maternal age and parity were different, so we should disuse our result from pointes are going on our society and our behaviors.