Nucleotide supplementation and the growth of term Small for Festational Age infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 74, Issue 2 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Cosgrove, M ^a   Davies, D P ^a   Jenkins, H R ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchup growth; Nucleotides; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CATCH UP GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; NUCLEOTIDES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0029979434     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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