Maternal waist-to-hip ratio as a predictor of newborn size: Results of the Diana Project

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 62-66

  Brown, Judith E ^a,c   Potter, John D ^a   Jacobs Jr , David R ^a   Kopher, Richard A ^b   Rourke, Mary Jo ^b   Barosso, Geralyn M ^a   Hannan, Peter J ^a   Schmid, Linda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Group Health Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

body fat distribution; infant birthweight; preconception; pregnancy; waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY FAT; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030044717     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199601000-00011     Document Type: Article

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