Maternal prepregnancy body mass index and risk of neural tube defects: A population-based case-control study in Shanxi Province, China

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 570-574

  Li, Zhiwen ^a   Liu, Jianmeng ^a   Ye, Rongwei ^a   Zhang, Le ^a   Pei, Lijun ^b   Zheng, Xiaoying ^b   Ren, Aiguo ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Body mass index; Case control study; Neural tube defects; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OBESITY; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINA BIFIDA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954715129     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20678     Document Type: Article

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