Maternal body mass, proportional weight gain, and fetal growth in parous women

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-219

  Shepard, Mary Jo ^a,d   Bakketeig, Leiv S ^b   Jacobsen, Geir ^c   O'Connor, Theresa ^a   Bracken, Michael B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d Box 208034 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL WELFARE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PARITY; SWEDEN; TIME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0029974536     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1996.tb00044.x     Document Type: Article

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