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Fertility and pregnancy : an epidemiologic perspective /

"Fertility and Pregnancy: An Epidemiologic Perspective offers an overview of human reproduction - how it works, and what causes it to go wrong. Weaving together history, biology, obstetrics, pediatrics, demography, infectious diseases, molecular genetics, and evolutionary biology, Allen Wilcox...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wilcox, Allen J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Table des matières:
  • The creative biology of human reproduction
  • On getting pregnant
  • How humans control their fertility
  • Infections and reproduction
  • The genetics of reproduction
  • Evolutionary biology and eugenics
  • Heterogeneity of risk
  • Reproductive epidemiology : themes and variations
  • Fertility and fecundability
  • Early pregnancy loss
  • Miscarriage
  • Stillbirth and infant mortality
  • Twins and more
  • Gestational age and preterm delivery
  • Birth weight and fetal growth
  • Birth defects
  • Sex ratio
  • Maternal mortality and morbidity
  • Preeclampsia
  • Fetal exposures and adult disease
  • Unanswered questions in reproductive epidemiology.