Maternal stress and preterm delivery

Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-42

  Dunkel Schetter, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

PRETERM DELIVERY; PRETERM LABOR; PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK; STRESS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001796973     PISSN: 13598635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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