Jongbloet Piet Hein
Department Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Early Hum Dev. 2004 Sep;79(2):159-63. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2004.04.008.
Male dominance being higher at preterm than term delivery was described in a population-based study by Vatten and Skjaerven [Early Hum. Dev. 76 (2004) 47]. A so-called "reversion" and "cross-over" in the sex ratio took place in preeclamptic gestations. These phenomena occurred earlier and stronger when associated with perinatal mortality and are in line with the overripeness ovopathy concept.