Seasonal variation in weight-for-age in a pediatric emergency room

Public Health Reports

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 366-371

  Frank, Deborah A ^a,b   Roos, Nicole ^b   Meyers, Alan ^a,b   Napoleone, Maria ^e   Peterson, Karen ^c   Cather, Amanda ^b   Cupples, L Adrienne ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Dept Matern Child Hlth and Nutr Harvard School of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNGER; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0029801210     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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