Extreme obesity and risk of stillbirth among black and white gravidas

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 552-557

  Salihu, Hamisu M ^a   Dunlop, Anne Lang ^b   Hedayatzadeh, Maryam ^b   Alio, Amina P ^b   Kirby, Russell S ^b   Alexander, Greg R ^b  

^a MDC 56 ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OBESITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STILLBIRTH; WEIGHT; ANEMIA; BLACK PERSON; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; ECLAMPSIA; EDUCATION; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED PERSON; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL OBESITY; MATERNAL SMOKING; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MISSOURI; OBESITY, MORBID; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 34548387445     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000270159.80607.10     Document Type: Article

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