Risk of adverse outcomes among infants of immigrant women according to birth-weight curves tailored to maternal world region of origin

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2015, Pages E32-E40

  Urquia, Marcelo L ^a,c   Berger, Howard ^b,c,d,e   Ray, Joel G ^b,c,d,e   Babaran Henfrey, Kathlyn ^e   Bismilla, Saleha ^e   Bocking, Alan ^e   Booth, Marilyn ^e   Campbell, Douglas ^e   Chiu, Maria ^e   Colizza, Lisa ^e   de Groh, Margaret ^e   De Souza, Leanne ^e   Glazier, Richard ^e   Guttmann, Astrid ^e   Handa, Manavi ^e   Hilliard, Robert ^e   Longo, Christopher ^e   Maguire, Jonathon ^e   Mousmanis, Patricia ^e   Park, Alison ^e   Roukema, Henry ^e   Roy, Jennifer ^e   Sgro, Michael ^e   Smith, Graeme N ^e   Tu, Karen ^e   Vanderkooy, Pat ^e   Urquia, Marcelo ^e   Watson, William ^e   Watts, Nancy ^e   more..

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH INJURY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADIAN; CARIBBEAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; EAST ASIAN; FEMALE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOUTH ASIAN; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MALE; MIGRANT; ONTARIO; REFERENCE VALUE; REGISTER; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BIRTH WEIGHT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; REFERENCE VALUES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920554671     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.140748     Document Type: Article

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