Fertility treatments and multiple births in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2218-2225

  Kulkarni, Aniket D ^a   Jamieson, Denise J ^a   Jones Jr , Howard W ^b,c   Kissin, Dmitry M ^a   Gallo, Maria F ^a   Macaluso, Maurizio ^d   Adashi, Eli Y ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY TREATMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889264183     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1301467     Document Type: Article

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