Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Among Primiparae at Very Advanced Maternal Age: At What Price?

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 833-842

  Ben David, Alon ^a   Glasser, Saralee ^b   Schiff, Eyal ^c   Zahav, Aliza Segev ^c   Boyko, Valentina ^b   Lerner Geva, Liat ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Birth outcome; Pregnancy complications; Primiparity; Very advanced maternal age

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STILLBIRTH;

CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84961141400     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-015-1914-8     Document Type: Article

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