Prenatal stress during the 1999 bombing associated with lower birth weight-A study of 3,815 births from Belgrade

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-89

  Maric, Nadja P ^a,b   Dunjic, Bojana ^a   Stojiljkovic, Dragan J ^a   Britvic, Dubravka ^a   Jasovic Gasic, Miroslava ^a,b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Bombing; Low birth weight; Newborns; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BOMB; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHESUS INCOMPATIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERBIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76449113920     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-009-0099-9     Document Type: Article

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