Racial variation in the association between gestational age and perinatal mortality: Prospective study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7598, 2007, Pages 833-835

  Balchin, Imelda ^a,e   Whittaker, John C ^b   Patel, Roshni ^c   Lamont, Ronald F ^d   Steer, Philip J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; NEWBORN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 34247556912     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39132.482025.80     Document Type: Article

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