Consumption of indigenous medicines by pregnant women in North India for selecting sex of the foetus: What can it lead to?

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Neogi, Sutapa Bandyopadhyay ^a   Negandhi, Preeti H ^a   Ganguli, Abhijit ^b   Chopra, Sapna ^a   Sandhu, Navraj ^c   Gupta, Ravi Kant ^c   Zodpey, Sanjay ^a   Singh, Amarjeet ^d   Singh, Arun ^c   Gupta, Rakesh ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Government of Haryana ^*  (India)

^d POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; FORMONONETIN; GENISTEIN; SEX SELECTION DRUG; TERATOGENIC AGENT; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ARTICLE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIA; POWDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; TABLET; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DRUG EFFECTS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; PHYTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX SELECTION;

FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOESTROGENS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; SEX PRESELECTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84940729679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-015-0647-4     Document Type: Article

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