Increasing maternal age and obstetric outcomes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 217-219

  Dickinson, Jan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; AUSTRALIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; DELIVERY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY; LABOR INDUCTION; LESBIAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; NULLIPARA; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STILLBIRTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862553589     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2012.01459.x     Document Type: Editorial

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