Experts can predict threat of miscarriage
Dr Kaltum Adam, an honorary clinical research fellow at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester told the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology that about 20% of all pregnancies were complicated by threatened miscarriage, and up to 20% of these would miscarry.
However, after analysing data on the outcomes of more than 100 pregnancies, Dr Adam found there were six factors that had the most impact on the risk of miscarriage: a history of subfertility (a couple that has tried unsuccessfully to have a child for one year or more is said to be subfertile), levels of progesterone, levels of hCG — a hormone produced during pregnancy, the length of the foetus, how much bleeding had occurred, and the gestational age of the baby.
