Asthma exacerbations during the first trimester of pregnancy and the risk of congenital malformations among asthmatic women

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Blais, Lucie ^a,b   Forget, Amélie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

administrative health databases; Asthma; cohort study; congenital malformations; exacerbation; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 44649126596     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.02.038     Document Type: Article

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