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Miscarriages affect more than one in ten women in France. According to American researchers who have just published their study on the subject, this phenomenon is more likely to occur in summer, due to the high temperatures.
Although still too often taboo, miscarriage is not uncommon but its cause is mostly ignored. It affects more than one in ten women and it is even estimated that 15% of pregnancies started will not exceed the fifth month. Often isolated, in some repeated, the miscarriage remains a significant event for a woman.
More miscarriages in summer
Researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health studied the issue of miscarriage. They came to the conclusion that summer was the riskiest season to make one, due to the high heat.
To arrive at this result, they used data from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) on spontaneous terminations of pregnancy concerning 6,104 women who became pregnant, between 2013 and 2020, out of a cohort of 12,197 women at the start.
According to their findings, the risk of having an early miscarriage (before the 14th week of amenorrhea) increases by 44% in August and by 31% when considering miscarriages in general.
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The high heat in question?
Asked about the question, Dr. Odile Bagot, gynecologist and member of the Doctissimo expert committee, explains that few studies have looked into the subject. “Nevertheless, the article is serious and solid, there are more miscarriages at the end of August, there are two explanations put forward by the researchers, they would be related to environmental causes or related to lifestyle “.
One of the hypotheses put forward by the researchers is that prolonged exposure to high temperatures could be the cause of this increased risk. “Few studies have examined the association between heat and miscarriage risk, so this is definitely a topic that requires further exploration.”judge Dr. Amelia Wesselink, expert in epidemiology and lead author of the study.