TY - JOUR
AU - Baird, D.
AB - 7th Conf. Intern. Soc. Geograph. Pathol., London 1960 P a th . Microbiol. 24: 557-560 (1961) By D. BAIRD (Aberdeen) The epidemiological method has not been used much in re­ search into the etiology of eclampsia and pre-eclampsia, yet the method has made substantial contributions towards the under­ standing of the cause of many diseases. It seems appropriate there­ fore that the opening day of this Conference of Geographical P a­ thology should be devoted to a consideration of the incidence of this disease and the factors which influence it. Epidemiological research depends upon the accurate and syste­ matic observation and recording of clearly definable facts in a known population or a representative sample of it. Unfortunately in many underdeveloped countries even mortality statistics are often not available so that it is impossible to discover much about the incidence of disease. Even inside a highly developed country like Britain regional comparisons are usually impossible because of the inadequacy of morbidity statistics. This is particularly dif­ ficult in the case of pre-eclampsia since there is no general agree­ ment as to the definition of the condition. Because of this diffi­ culty of defining pre-eclampsia the Society sponsored an investi­ gation 
TI - General Summary
JF - Pathobiology
DO - 10.1159/000161164
DA - 1961-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/general-summary-qwDvCqfess
SP - 557
EP - 560
VL - 24
IS - 4
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ER -