The impact of the Wenchuan earthquake on birth outcomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Tan, Cong E ^a,b   Li, Hong Jun ^a   Zhang, Xian Geng ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Han, Pei Yu ^a   An, Qu ^a   Ding, Wei Jun ^a   Wang, Mi Qu ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR MALFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEX RATIO; TWINS; BIRTH; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CHINA; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; TWINS;

EID: 77949537586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008200     Document Type: Article

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