Adverse perinatal outcome in teenage pregnancies: Is it all due to lack of prenatal care and ethnicity?

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 469-472

  Liran, Daniela ^a   Vardi, Ilana Shoham ^a   Sergienko, Ruslan ^a   Sheiner, Eyal ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ethnic minority; Low birth weight; Preterm delivery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARAB; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEW; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NULLIPARA; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ARABS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874025170     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.738262     Document Type: Article

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