Lack of normal increase in saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in women with labor induced at 42 weeks' gestation.

Moran, D J; McGarrigle, H H; Lachelin, G C · Am J Obstet Gynecol · 1992

prospective_cohort · Level II

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Abstract

Saliva specimens were collected approximately every 6 hours from day 280 to day 294 by 16 women who labored on day 294. There was a normal rise in the mean saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in the six who went into labor spontaneously but no change in the 10 whose labor was induced.

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