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nomadreid
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- perhaps I am parsing Wikipedia's phrasing incorrectly; if not, is there really such a difference? (7% and 0.4%) I could not find the 0.4% figure elsewhere (and I do not have access to the article cited after the 0.4%), although I found the 7% figure elsewhere.
"In the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postterm_pregnancy#Epidemiology I read:
Prevalence of postterm pregnancy ... The incidence is approximately 7%. Postterm pregnancy occurs in 0.4% of pregnancies approximately in the United States according to birth certificate data."
This seems to say that postterm preganancies are 7% of pregnancies worldwide (a figure I also found in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991404/), and then that it is 0.4% in the US (although the link just mentioned gives higher figures). Is this what it is saying and if so, is it correct, and if so, why the discrepancy?
Prevalence of postterm pregnancy ... The incidence is approximately 7%. Postterm pregnancy occurs in 0.4% of pregnancies approximately in the United States according to birth certificate data."
This seems to say that postterm preganancies are 7% of pregnancies worldwide (a figure I also found in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991404/), and then that it is 0.4% in the US (although the link just mentioned gives higher figures). Is this what it is saying and if so, is it correct, and if so, why the discrepancy?