Different sex ratios of children born to Indian and Pakistani immigrants in Norway

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Singh, Narpinder ^a   Pripp, Are H ^a   Brekke, Torkel ^b   Stray Pedersen, Babill ^a,c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIA; MALE; NORWAY; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH RATE; ETHNOLOGY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; MIGRATION; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH RATE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NORWAY; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX RATIO; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77955098266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-40     Document Type: Article

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