Evaluation of methods for the prospective identification of early fetal losses in environmental epidemiology studies

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 843-850

  Sweeney, Anne M ^a   Meyer, Marguerite R ^a   Aarons, Jerome H ^b   Mills, James L ^c   Laporte, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Antibodies; Chorionic; Gonadotropins; Monoclonal; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ABORTION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; COST; DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SHORT SURVEY; URINALYSIS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AMERICAS; ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; FETAL DEATH; GONADOTROPINS; GONADOTROPINS, CHORIONIC; HORMONES; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; LABORATORY PROCEDURES; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OVULATION DETECTION; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TESTS; PREGNANCY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0023887335     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114867     Document Type: Article

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