Maternal anemia and underweight as determinants of pregnancy outcomes: Cohort study in eastern rural Maharashtra, India

BMJ Open

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Patel, Archana ^a   Prakash, Amber Abhijeet ^a   Das, Prabir Kumar ^a   Gupta, Swarnim ^a   Pusdekar, Yamini Vinod ^a   Hibberd, Patricia L ^b  

^a Lata Medical Research Foundation   (India)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; body mass index; malnutrition; neonatal deaths; pregnancy; stillbirth

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRON THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAHARASHTRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DEATH; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL OBESITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; STILLBIRTH; UNDERWEIGHT; COMPLICATION; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; STILLBIRTH; THINNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85052989749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021623     Document Type: Article

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