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Béatrice Blondel
Researcher at University of Paris
Publications - 191
Citations - 8882
Béatrice Blondel is an academic researcher from University of Paris. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 178 publications receiving 8089 citations. Previous affiliations of Béatrice Blondel include Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University & French Institute of Health and Medical Research.
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A comparison of prenatal care use in the United States and Europe.
Pierre Buekens,Milton Kotelchuck,Béatrice Blondel,Finn Børlum Kristensen,J.H. Chen,Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant +5 more
TL;DR: In countries that offer nearly universal access to prenatal care, women begin care earlier during pregnancy and have fewer visits than women in the United States.
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Factors associated with the choice of delivery without epidural analgesia in women at low risk in France.
TL;DR: Unfavorable social situation and organizational factors are associated with the reported choice to give birth without epidural analgesia, suggesting that women are not always in a position to make a real choice.
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Selecting an indicator set for monitoring and evaluating perinatal health in Europe: criteria, methods and results from the PERISTAT project
Jennifer Zeitlin,Katherine Wildman,Gérard Bréart,Sophie Alexander,Henrique Barros,Béatrice Blondel,Simone Buitendijk,Mika Gissler,Alison Macfarlane +8 more
TL;DR: The PERISTAT project was charged with developing an indicator set for monitoring and describing perinatal health in Europe as part of the European Commission's Health Monitoring Programme, run by the Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection (DG-SANCO).
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Advances in medical technology and creation of disparities: the case of Down syndrome.
Babak Khoshnood,Catherine De Vigan,V. Vodovar,Gérard Bréart,François Goffinet,Béatrice Blondel +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed socioeconomic differences in probabilities of prena-tal diagnoses of Down syndrome and continuation of pregnancies after such diagnoses, along with the effects of these differences on disparities in live-birth prevalences of down syndrome.
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Differences in outcome between twins and singletons born very preterm: results from a population-based European cohort
Emile Papiernik,Jennifer Zeitlin,Dominique Delmas,Béatrice Blondel,Wolfgang Künzel,Marina Cuttini,Tom Weber,Stavros Petrou,Ludwig Gortner,Louis A.A. Kollée,Elizabeth S Draper +10 more
TL;DR: Risks of mortality and severe cranial haemorrhaging were higher for twins than singletons if they were from same sex pairs with discordant birthweights, but this advantage disappeared after controlling for medical and healthcare factors.