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Table 1 Search terms and number of articles found from a preliminary PubMed search

From: The risk of cardiovascular disease in women after miscarriage, stillbirth, and therapeutic abortion: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Step

Search term

Articles found (n)a

#1

“Spontaneous Abortion” OR “Habitual Abortion” OR “Recurrent Abortion” OR “Recurrent Miscarriage” OR “Habitual Miscarriage” OR “Miscarriage” OR “Foetal Death” OR “Fetal Death” OR “Pregnancy Loss” OR “therapeutic abortion” OR “stillbirtha” OR “still birth” OR “still-birth” OR “still borna” OR “abortiona” OR “induced abortiona

49,041

#2

“Cardiovascular Disease” OR “Coronary Artery Disease” OR “Myocardial Infarction” OR “Heart Attack” OR “Coronary Heart Disease” OR “Ischemic Heart Disease” OR “Ischaemic Heart Disease” OR “Stroke” OR “Transient Ischemic Attack” OR “Transient Ischaemic Attack” OR “Vascular Accident” OR “Apoplexy” OR “cerebrovascular diseasea” OR “TIA” OR “CVA” OR “cva” OR “CVD” OR “cardio-vascular disease” OR “Coronary Artery Bypass Graft”

769,180

#3

#1 AND #2 (filtered to humans)

421

  1. aPreliminary search conducted on May 7, 2019