Ethnicity and the risk of late-pregnancy stillbirth

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 278-281

  Drysdale, Henry ^a   Ranasinha, Sanjeeva ^a   Kendall, Amanda ^b   Knight, Michelle ^b   Wallace, Euan M ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Southern Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH ASIAN; SOUTH EAST ASIAN; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ADULT; ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; AUSTRALIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84868638679     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.10125     Document Type: Article

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