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Second Study Using Danish Population Data Led By WECARE Director Published in the European Journal of Public Health

A second paper was published this week using Danish data. The paper is titled “Reproductive History Patterns and Long-Term Mortality Rates: A Danish, Population-Based Record Linkage Study”  and co-authors include Drs. David Reardon and Byron Calhoun.  

New study on Reproductive History and Mortality Rates Using National Data from Denmark Just published in the Medical Science Monitor.

The objectives of the paper titled “Short and Long Term Mortality Rates Associated with First Pregnancy Outcome: Population Register Based Study for Denmark 1980-2004” were  to examine mortality rates associated with first pregnancy outcome  and to explore differences in mortality rates associated with early abortion and late abortions (after 12 weeks). The population was comprised of a total of 463,473 Danish women who had their first pregnancy between 1980 and 2004 (2,238 died across the study period).  

New Study from China: More Evidence of Increased Psychological Risks Associated with Abortion

Huang and colleagues, affiliated with the Anhui Medical College in China, just published a sophisticated large scale study in the Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology entitled “The Impact of Prior Abortion on Anxiety and Depression Symptoms during a Subsequent Pregnancy: Data From a Population-Based Cohort Study."

Data were derived from the Anhui Birth Defects and Child Development Cohort Study and the sample consisted of 6,887 women, 3,264 (47.6%) of whom had experienced at least one abortion.