Association Between Prenatal Stress and Infantile Spasms: A Case-Control Study in China

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 181-186

  Shang, Ning Xiu ^a   Zou, Li Ping ^b   Zhao, Jian Bo ^c   Zhang, Feng ^c   Li, Hua ^c  

^a CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; LACTIC ACID;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLINDNESS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE; METHYLMALONIC ACIDEMIA; MYELINATION; NEONATAL HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; NEWBORN DISEASE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PACHYGYRIA; PHENYLKETONURIA; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SECONDARY INFECTION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; URINALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MOTHERS; NEONATAL SCREENING; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; SPASMS, INFANTILE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 76249133365     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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