Maternal obesity as an independent risk factor for caesarean delivery

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 196-201

  Sheiner, Eyal ^a   Levy, Amalia ^a   Menes, Tehillah S ^b   Silverberg, Daniel ^c   Katz, Miriam ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRESENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; OBESITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RECURRENT ABORTION; ADULT; ISRAEL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; ISRAEL; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 3042781785     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2004.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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