Duration of Gestation and Timing of Birth

Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Savitz, David A ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gestational age; Postterm; Premature rupture of membranes; Prematurity; Preterm; Preterm labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387902.003.0041     Document Type: Chapter

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