Prenatal and postnatal risk factors for infantile pneumonia in a representative birth cohort

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1277-1285

  Chen, C H ^a,b   Wen, H J ^c   Chen, P C ^b   Lin, S J ^c   Chiang, T L ^b   Hsieh, I C ^a   Guo, Y L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fungi; infant; maternal overweight; pneumonia; prenatal antibiotics

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOULD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84861065095     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811001890     Document Type: Article

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