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We performed a cross-sectional analysis of adverse outcomes in pregnancies of Afro-Caribbean women with SLE and without SLE. One hundred and twenty-two female adult cases of SLE and 203 neighbourhood age-matched women without SLE were interviewed concerning details of their reproductive history, and the anticardiolipin antibody (ACL) status was established for women with SLE. A total of 1,029 pregnancies were reported (356 by women with SLE, 673 by women without SLE). In women with \u2265 1 pregnancy the total number of pregnancies was similar in women with a diagnosis of SLE and women without; however, a lower proportion of women with SLE had ever been pregnant compared with women without SLE (80% versus 91%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.002). In multivariate logistic regression analyses adjusted for maternal age, district of residence, pregnancy order and smoking, SLE pregnancies were more than twice as likely to end in foetal death than non-SLE pregnancies (odds ratio (OR), 2.4; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.2\u20134.7). This effect was driven by a large increase in the odds of stillbirth (OR, 8.5; 95% CI, 2.5\u201328.8). The odds of early miscarriage (OR, 1.4; 95% CI, 0.6\u20133.1) and of mid-trimester miscarriage (OR, 1.9; 95% CI, 0.4\u20139.5) were higher, but were not statistically significantly different, in SLE pregnancies than in non-SLE pregnancies. The odds of ectopic pregnancy (OR, 7.5; 95% CI, 0.9\u201362.5) and of preterm birth (OR, 3.4; 95% CI, 1.2\u201310.0) were higher in SLE pregnancies conceived after diagnosis than in non-SLE pregnancies. There was no evidence of raised levels of IgG or IgM ACL among the majority (93\/97 women, 96%) of SLE cases who reported sporadic mid-trimester miscarriage or stillbirth, although there was evidence of high levels of IgM and IgG ACL among women reporting three or more miscarriages and three consecutive miscarriages, and of raised IgG ACL among those experiencing ectopic pregnancy. In conclusion, we found evidence for a large increase in risk of stillbirth in the pregnancies of Afro-Caribbean Trinidadian women with SLE (not accounted for by high ACL status). There was some evidence of an increased risk of preterm delivery and ectopic pregnancy in pregnancies conceived after a diagnosis of maternal SLE.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1186\/ar2332","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,11,27]],"date-time":"2007-11-27T19:13:33Z","timestamp":1196190813000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Cross-sectional analysis of adverse outcomes in 1,029 pregnancies of Afro-Caribbean women in Trinidad with and without systemic lupus erythematosus"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Mariam","family":"Molokhia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Noreen","family":"Maconochie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alan Leslie","family":"Patrick","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pat","family":"Doyle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"2183_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1897","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajog.2005.02.063","volume":"192","author":"EF Chakravarty","year":"2005","unstructured":"Chakravarty EF, Colon I, Langen ES, Nix DA, El-Sayed YY, Genovese MC, Druzin ML: Factors that predict prematurity and preeclampsia in pregnancies that are complicated by systemic lupus erythematosus. 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