Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and risk of selected birth defects: Evidence of a dose-response relationship

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 521-531

  Block, Suzanne R ^a   Watkins, Sharon M ^a   Salemi, Jason L ^b   Rutkowski, Rachel ^a   Tanner, Jean Paul ^b   Correia, Jane A ^a   Kirby, Russell S ^b  

^a FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

birth defects; body mass index; congenital anomalies; pre pregnancy obesity

Indexed keywords

ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BODY MASS; CLEFT LIP; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; LARGE INTESTINAL ATRESIA; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PALATE; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PYLORUS STENOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; STENOSIS; UNDERWEIGHT;

BIRTH DEFECTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CONGENITAL ANOMALIES; PRE-PREGNANCY OBESITY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTHERS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886085419     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ppe.12084     Document Type: Article

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