Maternal smoking, obesity and male fetal sex predispose to a large nuchal translucency thickness in healthy fetuses

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-207

  Rode, L ^a,c   Ekelund, C ^a   Pedersen, N G ^a   Wojdemann K R ^a   Christiansen, M ^b   Sundberg, K ^a   Tabor, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crown rump length; Fetal sex; Nuchal translucency; Obesity; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETUS; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 79955026627     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319343     Document Type: Article

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