The changing risk of infant mortality by gestation, plurality, and race: 1989-1991 Versus 1999-2001

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2488-2497

  Luke, Barbara ^a,b   Brown, Morton B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Gestation; Infant mortality; Plurality; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADULT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NEGRO; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; TWINS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; QUADRUPLETS; QUINTUPLETS; RISK FACTORS; TRIPLETS; TWINS;

EID: 33947118144     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1824     Document Type: Article

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