Birth weight and body fat distribution in adolescent girls

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 381-383

  Barker, M ^a   Robinson, S ^a   Osmond, C ^a   Barker, D J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Birth weight; Body fat distribution

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

EID: 0030729308     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.77.5.381     Document Type: Article

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