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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Miscarriages
Message-ID: <144@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 16:19:42 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.144
Posted: Mon Nov 19 16:19:42 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Nov-84 01:28:52 EST
References: <4173@decwrl.UUCP> <222@oliveb.UUCP> <153@harvard.ARPA>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <153@harvard.ARPA> marie@harvard.ARPA (Marie Desjardins) writes:
>Jerry Aguirre says concerning miscarriages (in response to a discussion
>in net.kids):
>
>> Before you say it won't happen to me: The statistics I hear are 1 out
>> of 4 pregnancies.  I would say that a 25% chance of loosing the baby is
>> pretty bad odds.  It seems to be one of those things that "isn't
>> discussed".
>
>This seems ridiculously high to me, at least based on the number of
>people I have known who have been pregnant and miscarried.  Does anybody
>know the correct figures?
>
>	Marie desJardins
>	marie@harvard

I do not know the "correct" figures, BUT the figure cited could be
technically correct and still highly misleading.  That is pregnancies
could fall into two(or more) categories with regard to miscarriages;
a high risk category, in which a high percentage miscarry; and
a low risk category, in which there are almost no miscarriages.
Then the *averaged* rate of miscarriage over both categories
could well be as high as stated.