Preconception care: Nutritional risks and interventions

Reproductive Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Dean, Sohni V ^a   Lassi, Zohra S ^a   Imam, Ayesha M ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

folic acid; nutrition; overweight; preconception

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; IRON; MULTIVITAMIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ANEMIA; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; META ANALYSIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBESITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNDERWEIGHT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES;

BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84907426304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-11-S3-S3     Document Type: Review

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