Ethnicity Impacts First-Trimester Fetal Heart Rate. From: OB GYN News | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

RENO, NEV. -- The reliability of first-trimester fetal heart rate for predicting chromosonal abnormalities may be improved by adjusting for ethnicity.

This was the conclusion of a multicenter, prospective study presented in a poster session by Dr. Radek Bukowski at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Median fetal heart rates were significantly higher for white women, at 160 beats/min, than for African American or Hispanic women, whose median fetal heart rates were 158 beats/min.

The differences noted in this study, while small, "might have ...

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