Gestational-age-specific stillbirth risk among Australian Aborigines
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Gestational-age-specific stillbirth risk among Australian Aborigines.
BACKGROUND Previous studies have found that, for preterm babies, the risk of stillbirth among Australian Aborigines is similar to the risk for whites. In contrast, at full term, the risk for Aborigines is more than twice the risk for whites. However, these studies (like most other analyses of stillbirths) used the number of births at each gestational age to calculate the risk. For stillbirths, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/27.1.83