Fetal growth and cardiovascular risk factors in Jamaican schoolchildren

British Medical Journal

Volumn 312, Issue 7024, 1996, Pages 156-160

  Forrester, Terrence E ^a   Wilks, Rainford J ^a   Bennett, Franklyn I ^a   Simeon, Donald ^a   Osmond, Clive ^b   Allen, Mureen ^a   Chung, Andrene P ^a   Scott, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

EID: 0030049699     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7024.156     Document Type: Article

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