Number of Pregnancies and the Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 21, 1993, Pages 1528-1533

  Ness, Roberta B ^a   Harris, Tamara ^b   Cobb, Janet ^d   Flegal, Katherine M ^b   Kelsey, Jennifer L ^c   Balanger, Albert ^d   Stunkard, Albert J ^a   D'agostino, Ralph B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGE; MORBIDITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027253136     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199305273282104     Document Type: Article

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