Cognitive and educational attainments at school age of children who failed to thrive in infancy: A population-based study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 551-561

  Drewett, Robert F ^b   Corbett, Sally S ^c   Wright, Charlotte M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Body size; Failure to thrive; Feeding difficulties; Growth; Intelligence; Reading

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT DISEASE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACHIEVEMENT; BODY CONSTITUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032925972     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021963099003960     Document Type: Article

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