Paternal age and adverse birth outcomes: Teenager or 40+, who is at risk?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1290-1296

  Chen, Xi Kuan ^a,b   Wen, Shi Wu ^a,b   Krewski, Daniel ^a,c   Fleming, Nathalie ^d   Yang, Qiuying ^a,b   Walker, Mark C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c RISK SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Low birth weight; Paternal age; Preterm birth; Small for gestational age birth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NULLIPARA; PATERNAL AGE; PREMATURE LABOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449112282     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem403     Document Type: Article

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