Interpregnancy interval and obstetrical complications

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 584-596

  Shachar, Bat Zion ^a   Lyell, Deirdre J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANEMIA; AUTISM; BIRTH DEFECT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPTION; DYSTOCIA; ENDOMETRITIS; FETUS OUTCOME; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUNGER; INDUCED ABORTION; INFLAMMATION; INTERPREGNANCY INTERVAL; LIFESTYLE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRIAL OF LABOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIRTH INTERVALS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84866681080     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e31826b2c3e     Document Type: Review

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