Hypothermia in Iranian newborns. Incidence, risk factors and related complications

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1367-1371

  Zayeri, Farid ^a   Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan ^a   Ganjali, Mojtaba ^b   Babaei, Gholamreza ^a   Khanafshar, Navid ^c   Nayeri, Fatemeh ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; IRAN; JAUNDICE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; IRAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 26944432655     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 03795284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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