Low-dose aspirin in high-risk pregnancy?

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-238

  Gallery, Eileen D M ^a   Ross, Margaret R ^a   Hawkins, Margaret ^a   Leslie, Garth ^a   Györy, Ákos Z ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Hypertension; Preeclampsia; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; URIC ACID;

AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030822172     PISSN: 10641955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641959709031640     Document Type: Article

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