Male gender is associated with intraventricular hemorrhage

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Mohamed, Mohamed A ^a   Aly, Hany ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraventricular hemorrhage; Male vulnerability; Periventricular leukomalacia; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENDER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SAMPLE; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MALE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76049112382     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3369     Document Type: Article

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