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The risk of fetal death may be related to genetics, the study suggests


According to US research, it is possible that the chances of losing the baby’s life while still in the womb or during childbirth have a hereditary cause.

“It’s especially frustrating when you don’t have a good answer as to why a fetus lost its life,” says Jessica Page, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Utah Health University in the United States. The institute has the task of promoting one of the largest studies on the subject, of analyze the generational health history of families who have gone through this situation.




“Knowledge on the subject can give us the opportunity to change the way we classify people and reduce the risk of stillbirths through prevention,” the expert added in a note to the U of U Health🇧🇷

The research, published later this year in the scientific journal BJOGis the first to notice the possibility of losing the baby’s life while still in the womb or during labor can have genetic causes and be inherited by male family members.

The scientists analyzed 9,404 births in which the babies were born lifeless and found that 390 families had an excessive number of stillbirth incidents over the course of several generations. The risks, according to the material, came mainly from male cousins, parents and grandparents, and mainly from the paternal side of the family.

The genetic transmission trend of the condition was first observed by research, which compared episodes of stillbirth with a control group of 18,808 births that occurred between 1978 and 2019 in the United States.

Risks of fetal death

According to Utah Health, the chances of a baby dying during labor or in the womb increase when the mother has health problems such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and diabetes, but 1 in 3 episodes does not yet have a known cause.

“Few studies have looked at the inherited genetic risk of stillbirth due to lack of data. Understanding these models can help advise families about risks. The study is also an important step towards identifying specific genes that increase the chances of a child is born lifeless, which could one day lead to better diagnosis and prevention“Co-author Tsegaselassie Workalemahu concluded in a statement.

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Source: Terra

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