The association of life events to gestational age at delivery among low-income, urban, African American women

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 438-442

  Barbosa, Gail A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LINEAR MODELS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0034302877     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7200423     Document Type: Article

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