Serum leptin levels in women throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period and in women suffering spontaneous abortion

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-216

  Lage, Mary ^a   Garcia Mayor, Ricardo V ^c   Tomé, Maria A ^a   Cordido, Fernando ^b,c   Valle Inclan, Fernando ^c   Considine, Robert V ^d   Caro, Jose F ^d   Dieguez, Carlos ^a   Casanueva, Felipe F ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Thomas Jefferson University ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; WEIGHT GAIN;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROTEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0033060458     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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