Demographics and Exposures

Stillbirth: Prediction, Prevention and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 55-81

  Rowland Hogue, Carol J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic characteristics, not static age at childbearing, stillbirth etiology; Etiology causes demographics and exposures; Observable behavioral characteristics stillbirth, areas for primary prevention; Older maternal age (35) associated with risk of stillbirth; Older maternal age, risk factor for stillbirth among singletons; Racial or ethnic differences in stillbirth, united states race, hispanic ethnicity; Relative strengths and weaknesses studies of exposures with stillbirth; Stillbirth, just one of several potential adverse pregnancy outcomes; Trends in stillbirth rates developed world, suspected causes in united states; United states, race and education proxies for income and wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885767741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444398038.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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