American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 199, Issue 4 , Pages 370.e1-370.e7 , October 2008

Perinatal outcomes in low-risk term pregnancies: do they differ by week of gestation?

Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dallas, TX, Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 2008.

  • Yvonne W. Cheng, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • James M. Nicholson, MD, MSCE

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Sanae Nakagawa, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Tim A. Bruckner, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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  • A. Eugene Washington, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
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  • Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

Received 1 March 2008 ,Revised 21 April 2008 ,Accepted 1 August 2008.

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 A.B.C. is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Physician Faculty Scholar.

 Cite this article as: Cheng YW, Nicholson JM, Nakagawa S, et al. Perinatal outcomes in low-risk term pregnancies: do they differ by week of gestation? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008;199:370.e1-370.e7.

PII: S0002-9378(08)00913-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.08.008

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 199, Issue 4 , Pages 370.e1-370.e7 , October 2008

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