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Racial/ethnic differences in perineal, vaginal and cervical lacerations.

OBJECTIVE: To determine if variation exists between ethnicities for risk of perineal, vaginal, and cervical laceration at vaginal delivery. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of nulliparous women who underwent vaginal delivery of a vertex presentation. Predictor variable was ethnicity with outcome variables cervical, vaginal, and second-, third-, or fourth-degree perineal laceration. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to control for confounders. RESULTS: Of the 17,216 who met criteria, Filipino (OR = 1.92, 95% CI 1.64-2.25) and Chinese (OR = 1.60, 95% CI 1.33-1.92) women were at greatest risk for third- and fourth-degree laceration. Only Filipino (OR = 1.32, 95% CI 1.10-1.57) and other Asian (OR = 1.23, 95% CI 1.08-1.41) women were at slightly increased risk of vaginal laceration. No differences were seen for cervical laceration. CONCLUSION: Different ethnicities are at widely varying risk of perineal laceration, but little difference exists for vaginal or cervical lacerations. Research into the mechanisms behind this should investigate differences in perineal anatomy.

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Cervical laceration at IUD insertion--incidence and risk factors.

Incidence and risk factors of cervical laceration at IUD insertion are studied as the one remaining IUD insertion-related rare event using the multi-center IUD database developed by Family Health International. Two-hundred-ten lacerations were reported from 11,646 insertions (1.8 per 100 insertions) performed between 1977 and 1987. The incidence was twice as high in insertions with the copper devices and the multiload devices as in those with the Loop devices. Nulliparous women were found to be at an increased risk compared to multiparous women. Use of a tenaculum at insertion may also be a risk factor for laceration, but this finding needs to be confirmed by future studies. Data were not adequate to examine the effect of insertor's experience on the incidence of cervical lacerations at insertion.

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