Effect of coitus at term on length of gestation, induction of labor, and mode of delivery.

Objective: To determine coital incidence at term and to estimate its effect on labor onset and mode of delivery.

Methods: Healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies and established gestational age were recruited to keep a diary of coital activity from 36 weeks of gestation until birth and to answer a short questionnaire. Two hundred women with complete coital diaries were available for analysis.

Audit of birth defects in 34,109 deliveries in a tertiary referral center.

The objective of the study is to determine the proportion and different types of birth defects among the children born in Hospital Kuala Lumpur. A cross-sectional study was conducted for a period of 18 months where all consecutively born infants, dead or alive were included. There were total of 34,109 births recorded during this period.

Report of 50 cases of eclampsia.

Aim: To ascertain the characteristics, clinical features, and maternal fetal outcome in eclampsia in a tertiary referral center with 24 000 deliveries per year.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, in which 50 case notes were retrieved retrospectively and data was analyzed descriptively.

Results: Eclampsia was significant in the Malay primipara patients (n = 14, P = 0.