It is generally thought to be more rational in the preventive approach for the maternal health, to predict premature infants in advance to their births. In this point of view, analysis of the relationship between the physical status of newborn infants and their maternal factors was made retrospectively.
In the present paper, the newborn randomly selected from all over the country, totalling 11, 000 and additional 830 cases of the newborn infants delivered in the wards of two hospitals were examined and analysed.
The analysis was forcussed especially on several measurements available in the routine prenatal clinics, i. e. the increment of body weight, abdominal circumference, abdominal distance between the fundus uteri and the pubic symphysis, and blood pressure. Beside this, considerations were also given on the interval of births, previous artificial abortion and placental weight.
The results revealed the association between the prematurity and placental weight, maternal hypertension in the later stage of pregnancy. Further details will be studied and discussed in the forthcoming report.