Luigi Frigerio

Abstract The hospital admissions in obstetric wards in Lombardy, 2008. 2nd part.
In Lombardy, a Northen Italian Region with a population of 9,742.676 inhabitants at 1st January 2009, a standard from is used to register all discharges from obstetric department in Lombardy between January and December 2008. Rates (N/1000 resident women) and ratios (N/100 pregnancies) have been calculated. During the 2008 in Lombardy we have observed 151,005  discharges from obstetric department: the 23.0% were among non Italian Women. The spontaneous abortion 100 pregnancies ratio was similar between Italian and not Italian women. Otherwise, the induced abortion 100 pregnancies ratio was higher among non Italian women. The mean age at delivery was 31.5 years (32.5 among Italian and 28.5 among non Italian women). The frequency of cesarean section was 28.2/100 deliveries, increasing with maternal age, being 41.5% among women aged 40-44 years. Finally the frequency of operative vaginal delivery was 5.5/100 vaginal deliveries.

Key words: pregnancy, delivery, rate, epidemiology.