Plasma leptin in infants: Relations to birth weight and weight loss

Pediatrics

Volumn 101, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 429-432

  Marchini, Giovanna ^a   Fried, Gabriel ^a   Östlund, Eva ^a   Hagenäs, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LEPTIN; MALE; PROTEINS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0031929876     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.101.3.429     Document Type: Article

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