Abruption occurs in about 1:200 pregnancies, but frequencies as high as 1:75 have been recorded.
The reasons for this discrepancy reside with the tendency for different populations of mothers to present at different times after symptoms such as abdominal pain, and the variation of diagnostic criteria between centres.
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