Maternal passive smoking and its effect on maternal, neonatal and placental parameters

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-310

  Ramesh, K N ^a   Vidyadaran, M K ^b   Goh, Yong Meng ^a   Nasaruddin, A A ^a   Jammal, A B E ^a   Zainab, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b AIMST UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Maternal weight; Neonatal weight; Passive smoking; Placenta; Placental coefficient

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; PASSIVE SMOKING; PLACENTA WEIGHT; STEREOMETRY; FEMALE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 33644801302     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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