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PubMed1991

Incidence of legal abortions and congenital abnormalities in Hungary.

The annual and monthly distributions of congenital abnormalities and pregnancy outcomes as confounding factors were evaluated in Hungary in reflection of the accident at the Chernobyl reactor. The different congenital abnormality entities and the components of fetal radiation syndrome did not show a higher rate after the Chernobyl accident in the data-set of the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry. Among confounding factors, the rate of induced abortions did not increase after the Chernobyl accident in Hungary. In the 9th month after the peak of public concern (May and June, 1986) the rate of livebirths decreased. Three indicator conditions: 15 sentinel anomalies as indicators of germinal dominant gene mutations, Down syndrome as an indicator of germinal numerical and structural chromosomal mutations, and unidentified multiple congenital abnormalities as indicators of germinal dominant gene and chromosomal mutations were selected from the material of the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry. Diagnoses were checked, familial and sporadic cases were separated and only the sporadic cases were evaluated. The analysis of indicator conditions did not reveal any measurable germinal mutagenic effect of the Chernobyl accident in Hungary.

Abnormalities, Radiation-Induced↗
PubMed1986

Trends in induced legal abortion morbidity and mortality.

Abortion mortality in the USA experienced an eight-fold decline between 1972 and 1981, with the greatest decline occurring after 1975. The risk for all groups of women declined, but the decline was greater for some groups than for others. When both changing risk for a given characteristic and changing prevalence of that characteristic were examined, it appears that the declining mortality rates are largely due to a downward shift in the gestational ages at which abortions are obtained and the increased use of D&E for abortions at 12 gestational weeks or later. Although morbidity data analogous to the mortality data are not available, analysis of morbidity trends from three large multicentre prospective studies between 1970 and 1978 suggests that morbidity may not have declined quite as rapidly as mortality. The morbidity data, as well as giving information on cause-specific abortion mortality in the USA, showing dramatic declines for such causes as infection and pulmonary embolus, suggest that improved medical management of complications has contributed to declining abortion mortality in the USA.

Abortion Applicants↗