Reexamining the effects of gestational age, fetal growth, and maternal smoking on neonatal mortality

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ananth, Cande V ^a   Platt, Robert W ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING HABIT; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 12944271843     PISSN: 14712393     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-4-22     Document Type: Article

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