Prenatal care in combination with maternal educational level has a synergetic effect on the risk of neonatal low birth weight: New findings in a retrospective cohort study in Kunshan City, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Dai, Lin Lin ^a   Mao, Yuan Yuan ^b   Luo, Xiao Ming ^b   Shen, Yue Ping ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b First People's Hospital of Kunshan   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PROTECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; AMBULATORY CARE; GESTATIONAL AGE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; OFFICE VISITS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84913534805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113377     Document Type: Article

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