What is the influence of maternal weight gain on the fetal growth of twins?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-64

  Luke, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TWIN PREGNANCY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN; FEMALE; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS;

EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TWINS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0031953254     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199803000-00011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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