Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy and Sex Differences in Perinatal Death between Boys and Girls

Social Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 273-277

  Xu, Baizhuang ^a   Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^b   Rantakallio, Paula ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAUSES OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; EUROPE; EXCESS MORTALITY--MEN; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MORTALITY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NORTHERN EUROPE; PARENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCTION; SCANDINAVIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SMOKING--WOMEN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIOR; CAUSES OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; EUROPE; EXCESS MORTALITY--MEN; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FINLAND; MEN; MORTALITY; MOTHERS; NORTHERN EUROPE; PARENTS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SCANDINAVIA; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING--WOMEN; WOMEN;

FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING;

EID: 0032152695     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1998.9988978     Document Type: Article

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