Elevated risk of stillbirth in males: Systematic review and meta-analysis of more than 30 million births

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mondal, Debapriya ^a,b   Galloway, Tamara S ^a   Bailey, Trevor C ^a   Mathews, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth; Fetal loss; Gender medicine; Pregnancy; Sex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BIRTH RATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; MORTALITY RATE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84929942820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-014-0220-4     Document Type: Article

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