What is the significance of macrosomia?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1201-1205

  Schwartz, Robert ^a,c   Teramo, Kari A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; STILLBIRTH;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS;

EID: 0032977350     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.7.1201     Document Type: Article

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