Growth impairment in very low birthweight children at 12 years: Correlation with perinatal and outcome variables

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Powls, Andrew ^a   Botting, Nicola ^a   Cooke, Richard W I ^a   Pilling, David ^a   Marlow, Neil ^b  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone maturity; Occipitofrontal circumference; Sitting height; Skinfold thickness; Standing height

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUBERTY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0030278196     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.75.3.F152     Document Type: Article

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