Open AccessIn-hospital mortality and morbidity among extremely preterm infants in relation to maternal body mass index
Author(s) -
Sanjay Chawla,
Abbot R. Laptook,
Emily Ann Smith,
Sylvia Tan,
Girija Natarajan,
Myra H. Wyckoff,
Namasivayam Ambalavanan,
Edward F. Bell,
Krisa P. Van Meurs,
David K. Stevenson,
Erika F. Werner,
Rachel G. Greenberg,
Abhik Das,
Seetha Shankaran
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of perinatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1476-5543
pISSN - 0743-8346
DOI - 10.1038/s41372-020-00847-0
Subject(s) - medicine , underweight , body mass index , overweight , pediatrics , gestational age , obesity , retrospective cohort study , obstetrics , odds ratio , odds , mass index , cohort study , pregnancy , logistic regression , biology , genetics
The objective of this paper is to compare in-hospital survival and survival without major morbidities in extremely preterm infants in relation to maternal body mass index (BMI).