Maternal smoking and twinning

Twin Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 206-211

  Källén, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUND   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Infertility; Parity; Registry; Twinning rate; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; OVULATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REGISTER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TWINS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; ODDS RATIO; OVULATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032241215     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.1.4.206     Document Type: Article

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