Neonatal outcome in a Danish national cohort of 3438 IVF/ICSI and 10 362 non-IVF/ICSI twins born between 1995 and 2000

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 435-441

  Pinborg, Anja ^a   Loft, Anne ^a   Rasmussen, Steen ^b   Schmidt, Lone ^a   Langhoff Roos, Jens ^a   Greisen, Gorm ^a   Andersen, Anders Nyboe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Sundhedsstyrelsen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clinical epidemiology; Congenital malformations; ICSI twins; IVF; Neonatal outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARITY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 1242318737     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh063     Document Type: Article

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