Risk factor
|
Score
|
High blood pressure (moderate or
severe, often requiring hospitalization in pregnancy) |
10
|
Severe kidney or heart disease |
10
|
Diabetes (requiring insulin) |
10
|
Previous stillbirth, premature or
low birth weight infant, or newborn death that occurred within one month
of birth |
10
|
Overdue three or more weeks |
10
|
Twins |
10
|
Baby in breech position (in the
last six weeks of pregnancy) |
10
|
Previous multiple miscarriages (three
or more) |
10
|
Age older than 35 or younger than
15 |
10
|
Excessive drug use, including alcohol |
10
|
Moderate alcohol intake |
10
|
Previous kidney (not bladder) infection |
5
|
High blood pressure (mild, not requiring
hospitalization during pregnancy) |
5
|
Pregnancy diabetes (diabetes developing
in pregnancy, not requiring insulin) |
5
|
Previous cesarean section |
5
|
Previous delivery of baby weighing
more than 10 pounds |
5
|
Have been pregnant more than five
times |
5
|
Severe flu, bronchitis, or viral
illness |
5
|
Severe anaemia (haemoglobin less
than 9 grams) |
5
|
Weight less than 100 or more than
200 pounds |
5
|
Height less than five feet |
5
|
Previous child with a birth defect |
5
|
Vaginal spotting |
5
|
Smoking more than one packet of
cigarettes a day |
5
|
Emotional problems |
5
|
Bladder infection |
1
|
Previous high blood pressure in
an earlier pregnancy |
1
|
Family history of diabetes |
1
|