Perinatal mortality or severe neonatal encephalopathy among normally formed singleton pregnancies according to obstetric risk status:” is low risk the new high risk?” A population-based cohort study

Where low-risk status is assigned at registration, neonatal encephalopathy is more prevalent. This data is relevant for the design of prenatal care models and demonstrates that assignment of low obstetric risk on the basis of maternal or pre-pregnancy factors alone may erroneously be interpreted as conferring low-risk status to the fetus.