Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 216-224 , July 2006

Preconceptional health: Risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes by reproductive life stage in the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS)

  • Carol S. Weisman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Carol S. Weisman, PhD, Penn State College of Medicine, 600 Centerview Drive, A210, Hershey, PA 17033.
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  • Marianne M. Hillemeier, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Health and Human Development, University Park, Pennsylvania
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  • Gary A. Chase, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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  • Anne-Marie Dyer, MS

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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  • Sara A. Baker, MSW

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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  • Mark Feinberg, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Health and Human Development, University Park, Pennsylvania
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  • Danielle Symons Downs, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Health and Human Development, University Park, Pennsylvania
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  • Roxanne L. Parrott, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Liberal Arts, University Park, Pennsylvania
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  • Heather K. Cecil, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Middletown, Pennsylvania
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  • John J. Botti, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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  • Colin MacNeill, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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  • Cynthia H. Chuang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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  • Berwood Yost, MA

      Affiliations

    • Floyd Institute’s Center for Opinion Research, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Received 7 July 2005 ,Revised 10 January 2006 ,Accepted 11 January 2006.

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PII: S1049-3867(06)00015-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.01.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 216-224 , July 2006

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