Maternal obesity and detection rate of fetal structural anomalies

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 246-251

  Hildebrand, Eric ^a,b   Gottvall, Tomas ^a,b   Blomberg, Marie ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anomaly scan; Body mass index; Fetal anomalies; Obesity; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GYNECOLOGIST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL OBESITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNDERWEIGHT; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; LOW RISK POPULATION; MATERNAL CARE; SWEDEN;

BODY MASS INDEX; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; THINNESS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84878428640     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343219     Document Type: Article

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