Maternal education modifies the age-related increase in the birth prevalence of Down syndrome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-82

  Khoshnood, Babak ^a,c   Wall, Stephen ^a   Pryde, Peter ^b   Lee, Kwang Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Ethnicity; Maternal age; Maternal education; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MATERNAL AGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DOWN SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; ODDS RATIO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

PIERINAE;

EID: 1542291072     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.749     Document Type: Article

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