Risk factors for pre-eclampsia among Zimbabwean women: Maternal arm circumference and other anthropometric measures of obesity

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 253-262

  Mahomed, Kassam ^a   Williams, Michelle A ^b,c,d   Woelk, Godfrey B ^a   Jenkins Woelk, Laura ^a   Mudzamiri, Sarah ^a   Longstaff, Laura ^b   Sorensen, Tanya K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; OBESITY; PREECLAMPSIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031929111     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1998.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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