Pregnant women told to put on seat belts
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March 12, 2013, Tuesday
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DESPITE some women's worry that seat belts or air bags could harm a baby in utero in the case of an accident, expectant mothers who are not wearing a seat belt during a car crash are more likely to lose the pregnancy, according to a US study.
The results, which appeared in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, reinforce the findings of other studies that link seat belts with better chances of keeping both mother and baby alive.
"One thing we're always concerned about is (educating) patients on seat belt use," said senior author Haywood Brown, the chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University Medical Center.
"Nonetheless, like all individuals, some choose and so do not choose to wear their seat belt."
To get a better sense of which women don't use restraints and how that affects the outcome of their pregnancies, Brown and his colleagues searched through a trauma registry at Duke University Hospital.
They found 126 cases of women in their second and third trimesters who had been in a car crash and cared for at the hospital between 1994 and 2010.
Three fetuses, or 3.5 percent, died among the 86 mothers who were wearing a seat belt during the accident. Another three - 25 percent in this case - died among the 12 mothers who were not wearing a seat belt.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that belts should be worn at all times.
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