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Multiple Births - Paper

Multiple Births

are rare in humans with twins as being the most common form
of this event. can arise in many different combinations of ways
but the probability of giving birth to more than one child remains fairly
constant when compared to the entire human race. The chances of
can also vary from race and genetic background. Scientist and researchers do
not know what the exact cause of these variations is but many of them feel that
it is caused by hormone differences between different racial groups and/or the
difference in social class.
The prenatal and infant mortality is much higher in multiple pregnancies
than in pregnancies that only involves one child. The danger of premature birth
also ...

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children. These drugs cause
the ovaries to release an egg once a month but in some cases they release more
than one egg, sometimes releasing several at a time, increasing the chances of a
multiple birth. The drug clomiphene citrate is one of the most widely taken
fertility drug and has resulted in the birth of twins about once in every twelve
births, much greater than the chances of the birth of natural twins.
Twins are the most common form of a multiple pregnancy. About one in
eighty-seven births result in the birth of twins. Twins can be fraternal, also
known as dizygotic twins, or identical, also called monozygotic twins, with the
birth of identical twins being the rarest, occurring about four times in every
thousand births, about one-forth as often as the birth of fraternal twins. This
ratio of the birth of twins to the total number of births remains fairly
constant but the birth of fraternal twins can alter greatly. Fraternal twins
are most common among black African ...

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Added: 11/20/2005 10:35:44 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1090
Pages: 4

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