Constant multiple birth rates in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic until recently, 1972-1995

Twin Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 10-15

  Imaizumi, Yoko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POPULATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Quadruplets; Triplet rate; Twinning rate; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN ZYGOSITY; VITAL STATISTICS;

BIRTH RATE; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; QUADRUPLETS; SLOVAKIA; TRIPLETS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VITAL STATISTICS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0032965718     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905299320566059     Document Type: Article

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