Stillbirth in rural Bangladesh: arsenic exposure and other etiological factors: a report from Gonoshasthaya Kendra
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Stillbirth in rural Bangladesh: arsenic exposure and other etiological factors: a report from Gonoshasthaya Kendra.
OBJECTIVE To use data collected by Gonoshasthaya Kendra, a large nongovernmental organization providing health care to some 600 villages, to describe the epidemiological pattern of stillbirth and any additional contribution made by arsenic contamination of hand-pump wells in Bangladesh. METHODS Completed pregnancies and outcomes (n = 30 984) for two calendar years, together with existing data...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.07.043083