Neonatal Mortality Risk Associated with Preterm Birth in East Africa, Adjusted by Weight for Gestational Age: Individual Participant Level Meta-Analysis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Marchant, Tanya ^a   Willey, Barbara ^a   Katz, Joanne ^b   Clarke, Siân ^a   Kariuki, Simon ^c,d   ter Kuile, Feiko ^e   Lusingu, John ^f   Ndyomugyenyi, Richard ^g   Schmiegelow, Christentze ^h,i   Watson Jones, Deborah ^a,j   Armstrong Schellenberg, Joanna ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^g MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^j National Institute for Medical Research   (Tanzania)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; MATERNAL CARE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYPHILIS;

AFRICA, EASTERN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALARIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SYPHILIS;

EID: 84865531115     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001292     Document Type: Article

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