Risk factors for perinatal death in Cape Verde

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-36

  Wessel, H ^a,d   Cnattingius, S ^a   Dupret, A ^b   Reitmaier, P ^c   Bergstrom S ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Ministry of Health Praia   (Cape Verde)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BOY; CAPE VERDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FEVER; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRESENTATION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSTETRIC CARE; PERINATAL DEATH; PREECLAMPSIA; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BIOLOGY; CAPE VERDE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEONATAL MORTALITY--DETERMINANTS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTUGUESE SPEAKING AFRICA; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK FACTORS; WESTERN AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031852670     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1998.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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