Pregnancy and birth complications in patients with schizophrenia in Trinidad and London

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-126

  Bhugra, D ^a,b   Hutchinson, Gah ^a,b   Hilwig, M ^a,b   Takei, N ^a,b   Fahy, T A ^a,b   Neehall, J ^a,b   Murray, R M ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVIEW; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; BIRTH INJURIES; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0042388129     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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