Mortality risk among preterm babies: Immaturity versus underlying pathology

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 521-527

  Basso, Olga ^a   Wilcox, Allen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; TRIPLETS; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953959570     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181debe5e     Document Type: Article

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