Calcium supplementation (other than for preventing or treating hypertension) for improving pregnancy and infant outcomes

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Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Buppasiri, Pranom ^a   Lumbiganon, Pisake ^a   Thinkhamrop, Jadsada ^a   Ngamjarus, Chetta ^b   Laopaiboon, Malinee ^b   Medley, Nancy ^c  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM INTAKE;

ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BACKACHE; BIRTH LENGTH; BONE DENSITY; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FETUS DEATH; FETUS OUTCOME; FRACTURE; GESTATIONAL WEIGHT GAIN; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT OUTCOME; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; LEG CRAMP; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL DEATH; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MINERAL SUPPLEMENTATION; NEWBORN DEATH; OSTEOPENIA; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RICKETS; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TETANY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREMOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROLITHIASIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCIUM INTAKE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCIUM, DIETARY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84934301225     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007079.pub3     Document Type: Review

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