Attitude of women with IVF and spontaneous pregnancies towards prenatal screening

Human Reproduction

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2438-2443

  Abu Musa, Antoine A ^a   Nassar, Anwar H ^a   Usta, Ihab M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; IVF; Spontaneous pregnancy; Triple screen

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO PREGNANCY; BEHAVIOR; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEBANON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIMIPARA; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 54149095979     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den291     Document Type: Article

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