Sexual Disease Linked to Ectopic Pregnancies

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A REASON for the link between ectopic pregnancy and a sexual infection has been discovered by academics in Scotland.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh found women who have had chlamydia are at greater risk of such pregnancies, in which the baby starts to grow before entering the womb, usually in the fallopian tubes. About one in 50 pregnancies is ectopic.

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Sexual Disease Linked to Ectopic Pregnancies

The latest cause of risk to be discovered is the lasting after- effect of chlamydia.

For the first time, the new study shows evi...

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