Preconception maternal bereavement and infant and childhood mortality: A Danish population-based study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 863-869

  Class, Quetzal A ^a   Mortensen, Preben B ^c   Henriksen, Tine B ^c   Dalman, Christina ^d   D'Onofrio, Brian M ^b   Khashan, Ali S ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BEREAVEMENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84944072088     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000229     Document Type: Article

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