Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Second-Born versus First-Born Twins
- 29 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 317 (18) , 1121-1125
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198710293171805
Abstract
The well-known increased risk of the respiratory distress syndrome in a twin born second as compared with the twin born first is usually attributed to the second twin's predisposition to depression at birth ("asphyxia"). We analyzed the etiologic roles of birth order, presentation, and depression at birth in the development of the respiratory distress syndrome in matched case-control populations drawn from 221 preterm twin pairs.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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