Ecological and individual predictors of birthweight in a northern Finland birth cohort 1986

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 298-312

  Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^a   Elliott, Paul ^b   Kleinschmidt, Immo ^b   Martuzzi, Marco ^b   Grundy, Chris ^c   Hartikainen, Anna Liisa ^a   Rantakallio, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 0031403760     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1997.tb00007.x     Document Type: Article

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