Neonatal Hypothermia in Low-Resource Settings
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Neonatal hypothermia in low-resource settings.
Hypothermia among newborns is considered an important contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality in low-resource settings. However, in these settings only limited progress has been made towards understanding the risk of mortality after hypothermia, describing how this relationship is dependent on both the degree or severity of exposure and the gestational age and weight status of the baby,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Perinatology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0146-0005
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2010.09.007