PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Moraitis, AA AU - Smith, GC TI - PP.11 One Third of Non-Anomalous Term Stillbirths Are Associated with Abnormal Fetal Growth AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303966.292 DP - 2013 Apr 01 TA - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition PG - A85--A85 VI - 98 IP - Suppl 1 4099 - http://fn.bmj.com/content/98/Suppl_1/A85.1.short 4100 - http://fn.bmj.com/content/98/Suppl_1/A85.1.full SO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2013 Apr 01; 98 AB - Background Approximately one third of all stillbirths occur at term. These losses are potentially preventable by early delivery at 37 weeks. One means of screening to detect babies at risk of term stillbirth would be to use ultrasound to assess abnormalities of fetal growth. However, there is limited information on the importance of fetal growth in determining the risk of stillbirth at term. Methods/Results We studied registries of Scottish maternity and stillbirth data and identified 668,887 eligible records of term births since 1992. Birth weight was classified on the basis of sex and gestational age specific percentiles. The relationship between birth weight percentile and the risk of stillbirth (all causes except congenital anomaly) was assessed referent to birth weight percentiles in the range 20–80th. The risk (odds ratio [95% CI] P) of stillbirth was increased with birth weight between the 1st–3rd percentile (OR = 8.2 [CI:6.8–9.9] P < 0.001), 4th–10th percentile (OR = 3.5 [CI:2.8–4.0] P < 0.001) and the 11th–20th percentile (OR = 1. 8 [CI:1.4–2.2] P < 0.001). The risk of stillbirth was also increasing among the largest infants: 98th–100th percentile (OR = 2.3 [CI:1.7–3.1] P < 0.001). The attributable fraction for stillbirth associated with these birth weight categories was 33% (95% CI: 28 to 37%). The associations were minimally affected by adjusting for maternal characteristics, including smoking. Conclusion Approximately one third of all term stillbirths are associated with growth abnormality. These data indicate that population screening for growth abnormality could identify babies at increased risk of term stillbirth.