Minor Ailments in Pregnancy Are Not a Minor Concern for Pregnant Women: A Morbidity Assessment Survey in Rural Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika ^a   Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Dharshana ^a   Horton, Jennifer ^a   Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COLD; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEARTBURN; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG SWELLING; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; SRI LANKA; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL PRURITUS; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SRI LANKA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877623843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064214     Document Type: Article

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