Country of birth and hospitalization for pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, endometriosis, and infertility: a nationwide study of 2 million women in Sweden

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1019-1025

  Eggert, Jan ^a   Li, Xinjun ^a   Sundquist, Kristina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Country of birth; fertility; infertility; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRTHPLACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMALIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWEDEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 52949153998     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1345     Document Type: Article

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