Comparison of pregnancy outcome between teenage and older primigravidae in Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, north-central Nigeria

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-106

  Mutihir, Josiah T ^a   Maduka, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Booked; Primigravidae; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABOR COMPLICATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; NIGERIA; OBSTETRIC CARE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 33750698582     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 15963519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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