Weight for gestational age affects the mortality of late preterm infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Pulver, Laurie S ^a,b   Guest Warnick, Ginger ^a   Stoddard, Gregory J ^a   Byington, Carrie L ^a   Young, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Gestational age size; Infant mortality; Neonatal mortality; Premature infants

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; WEIGHT FOR GESTATIONAL AGE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TERM BIRTH; UTAH;

EID: 66249106399     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3288     Document Type: Article

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