For women in childbearing years, the chances of having a miscarriage can range from 10-25%, and in most healthy women the average is about a 15-20% chance. Few datas collected show some figures:

- An increase in maternal age affects the chances of miscarriage

- Women under the age of 35 yrs old have about a 15% chance of miscarriage

- Women who are 35-45 yrs old have a 20-35% chance of miscarriage

- Women over the age of 45 can have up to a 50% chance of miscarriage

- A woman who has had a previous miscarriage has a 25% chance of having another (only a slightly elevated risk than for someone who has not had a previous miscarriage).

It is the most common complication of early pregnancy used in reference to any terminated pregnancy, deliberately induced or spontaneous, although in common parlance it refers specifically to active termination of pregnancy.

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