Pediatric mortality in males versus females in the United States, 1999-2008

Pediatrics

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 631-638

  Balsara, Sheri L ^a   Faerber, Jennifer A ^a   Spinner, Nancy B ^b   Feudtner, Chris ^a,b  

^a Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease risk; Mortality risk; Sex difference; Sexlinked genes; Vital statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885171121     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-0339     Document Type: Article

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