Adequacy of standards for assessment of growth and nutritional status in infancy and early childhood

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-124

  Savage, Shirley Anne H ^a   Reilly, John J ^a   Edwards, Christine A ^a   Durnin, John V G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure to thrive; Growth; Nutritional assessment; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

EID: 0032987264     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.80.2.121     Document Type: Article

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