Dear all,
This following article confirms the impact of stillbirth and infant death. In
constellations we see that it can affect in further generation, but apparently
it affect the age of the mother too:
Abstract
Objective To identify the relative risk (RR) of mortality in bereaved parents
compared with non-bereaved counterparts.
Design Retrospective data linkage study.
Setting United Kingdom, 19712006.
Participants A random sample from death registrations (5%) of parents who had a
live birth where the infant lived beyond its first year of life (non-bereaved
parents) and parents who had experienced a stillbirth or the death of a child
in its first year of life (bereaved parents) between 1971 and 2006.
Main outcome measures Death or widowhood of the parent.
Results Bereaved parents in Scotland (n=738) were more than twice as likely to
die in the first 15 years after their child's death than non-bereaved parents
(n=50 132), p<0.005. Bereaved mothers in England and Wales (n=481) were more
than four times as likely to die in the first 15 years after their child's
birth than non-bereaved parents (n=30 956), p<0.001. The mortality risk for
bereaved mothers compared with non-bereaved mothers, followed up for 25 years
after death, was 1.5 (bereaved n=745, non-bereaved n=36 434), p<0.005. When
followed up for 35 years, the risk of mortality for bereaved mothers (n=1120)
was 1.2 times that of non-bereaved mothers (n=36 062), p<0.005.
Conclusions Bereaved parents who experience stillbirth or infant death have
markedly increased mortality compared with non-bereaved parents, up to 25 years
(mean) after the death of their child. However, the RR reduces over time.
http://spcare.bmj.com/content/early/2011/09/01/bmjspcare-2011-000025
Kind regards,
Maria Goossens, MD
goossens.maria@xxxxxxxxxx
www.dokter-goossens.be
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