Customised and Noncustomised Birth Weight Centiles and Prediction of Stillbirth and Infant Mortality and Morbidity: A Cohort Study of 979,912 Term Singleton Pregnancies in Scotland

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Iliodromiti, Stamatina ^a   Mackay, Daniel F ^a   Smith, Gordon C S ^b,c   Pell, Jill P ^a   Sattar, Naveed ^a   Lawlor, Debbie A ^d   Nelson, Scott M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PARITY; PREDICTION; SCOTLAND; STATISTICS; STILLBIRTH; TERM BIRTH; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; SCOTLAND; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85010955769     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002228     Document Type: Article

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