Evaluation of a definition of pre-eclampsia

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 767-773

  North, Robyn A ^a   Taylor, Rennae S ^a   Schellenberg, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NULLIPARA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RISK; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032797039     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1999.tb08396.x     Document Type: Article

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