Pre-eclampsia as Underlying Cause for Perinatal Deaths: Time for Action
Open Access
- 17 December 2015
- journal article
- Published by Johns Hopkins School Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs in Global Health: Science and Practice
- Vol. 3 (4), 525-527
- https://doi.org/10.9745/ghsp-d-15-00350
Abstract
Pre-eclampsia is a major underlying cause of late fetal and early neonatal death, accounting for somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 4 perinatal deaths; it warrants greater efforts from the maternal-newborn community.Keywords
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