Intergenerational influences affecting birth outcome. I. Birthweight for gestational age in the children of the 1958 British birth cohort

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 45-60

  Hennessy, Enid ^a   Alberman, Eva ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0031928257     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1998.0120s1045.x     Document Type: Article

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