Apgar score and the risk of cause-specific infant mortality: A population-based cohort study

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9956, 2014, Pages 1749-1755

  Iliodromiti, Stamatina ^a   MacKay, Daniel F ^a   Smith, Gordon C S ^b   Pell, Jill P ^a   Nelson, Scott M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERM BIRTH; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND; TERM BIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910677877     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61135-1     Document Type: Article

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