Extremely low birth weight and infant mortality rates in the United States

Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 855-860

  Lau, Carissa ^a   Ambalavanan, Namasivayam ^a   Chakraborty, Hrishikesh ^b   Wingate, Martha S ^c   Carlo, Waldemar A ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth rate trends; Infant mortality trends; Infants; Low birth weight; Prenatal care delivery; United States epidemiology; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 84877041470     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-2471     Document Type: Article

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