Predicting Risk of Preterm Birth: The Roles of Stress, Clinical Risk Factors, and Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone

Biological Research For Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-64

  Ruiz, R Jeanne ^a   Fullerton, Judith ^b   Brown, Charles E L ^c   Dudley, Donald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c Brackenridge Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical risk factors; corticotropin releasing hormone; preterm birth; stress

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036652364     PISSN: 10998004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1099800402004001007     Document Type: Article

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