Maternal education and stillbirth: Estimating gestational-age-specific and cause-specific associations

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 247-254

  Auger, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Delézire, Pauline ^d   Harper, Sam ^e   Platt, Robert W ^e  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS RISK; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LANGUAGE; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PARITY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; UMBILICAL CORD COMPRESSION;

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856871152     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31824587bc     Document Type: Article

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