Maternal hypertensive disorders are an independent risk factor for the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 404-407

  Bashiri, Asher ^a   Zmora, Ehud ^a   Sheiner, Eyal ^a   Hershkovitz, Reli ^a   Shoham Vardi, Ilana ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Maternal hypertension; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Prematurity; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0142227888     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073132     Document Type: Article

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