Low Birth Weight in Relation to Sex of Baby, Maternal Age and Parity: A Hospital Based Study on Tangsa Tribe from Arunachal Pradesh

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 362-364

  Mondal, B ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PARITY; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032234858     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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