Systematic review and meta-analyses: Fever in pregnancy and health impacts in the offspring

Pediatrics

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Dreier, Julie Werenberg ^a   Andersen, Anne Marie Nybo ^b   Berg Beckhoff, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities; Developmental disabilities; Fetal origins of disease; Fever; Hypersensitivity; Meta analysis; Mortality; Pregnancy; Pregnant women; Review; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATARACT; CEREBRAL PALSY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EAR MALFORMATION; ECZEMA; EXPOSURE; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MATERNAL FEVER; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MOUTH MALFORMATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WHEEZING;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FETAL ORIGINS OF DISEASE; FEVER; HYPERSENSITIVITY; META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLEFT LIP; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84895181909     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-3205     Document Type: Article

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