Moderate to heavy caffeine consumption during pregnancy and relationship to spontaneous abortion and abnormal fetal growth: A meta-analysis

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 435-444

  Fernandes, Olavo ^a   Sabharwal, Mona ^a   Smiley, Tom ^a   Pastuszak, Anne ^b   Koren, Gideon ^b   Einarson, Thomas ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Congenital malformations; Pregnancy; Spontaneous abortion

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COFFEE; DIETARY INTAKE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAFFEINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032129126     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6238(98)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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