Pregnancy at high altitude

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 535-539

  Krampl, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GLUCOSE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; BIOMETRY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SOCIAL STATUS; UTERINE ARTERY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL HYPOXIA; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0036283715     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2002.00738.x     Document Type: Editorial

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