Vaginal bleeding patterns among rural highland Bolivian women: Relationship to fecundity and fetal loss

Contraception

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 319-325

  Vitzthum, Virginia J ^a   Spielvogel, Hilde ^b   Caceres, Esperanza ^b   Miller, Aaron ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bolivian Institute of High Altitude Biology   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Cancer risk; Contraception; Fecundity; Fetal loss; Menstruation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CANCER RISK; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; PARITY; PUERPERIUM; RURAL AREA; URINALYSIS; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; BOLIVIA; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; LACTATION; MENSTRUATION; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0035693507     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(01)00260-8     Document Type: Article

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