Maternal age-specific risk of non-chromosomal anomalies

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1111-1119

  Loane, M ^a   Dolk, H ^a   Morris, J K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maternal age; Non chromosomal anomalies; Older mothers; Prevalence; Relative risk; Teenage mothers

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENVIRONMENT; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS DEATH; FRANCE; GASTROSCHISIS; GERMANY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; IRELAND; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; POLAND; POPULATION; PORTUGAL; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; THANATOPHORIC DWARFISM; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651151524     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02227.x     Document Type: Article

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