Are women carrying "basketballs" really having boys? Testing pregnancy folklore

Birth

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 172-177

  Perry, Deborah F ^a   DiPietro, Janet ^a   Costigan, Kathleen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

EID: 0033183030     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.1999.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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