Pregnancy wastage in rural Varanasi: Relationship with maternal nutrition and sociodemographic characteristics

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1071-1079

  Agarwal, D K ^b   Agarwal, A ^b   Singh, M ^b   Satya, K ^b   Agarwal, S ^b   Agarwal, K N ^a,c  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Abortions; Rural; Still births; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0032196381     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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