MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT TEACHING HOSPITAL, NIGERIA

Maternal mortality in the first year of the new millennium at the University Of Port Harcourt teaching hospital, Nigeria

Aim: To highlight the tragedy posed by unbooked obstetric emergencies.Method: All the obstetric deaths in the year 2000 were recorded.Analyses were made of such aspects as distribution of death according to booking status, major direct obstetric causes of death, state of mother and baby on admission, duration of stay and mode of delivery in hospita

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Estrogens and breast cancer

In this review, we summarize the epidemiologic evidence for the associations of oral contraceptives and postmenopausal hormones with risk of breast cancer.We also describe the biologic plausibility of these relationships.Overall, there appears to be little, if any, increase in risk with oral contraceptive use in general, even among users for 10 or

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