Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy, low birth weight and subsequent blood pressure in early childhood

Early Human Development

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-147

  Blake, Kevin V ^a,b   Gurrin, Lyle C ^b   Evans, Sharon F ^b   Beilin, Lawrence J ^a   Landau, Louis I ^a   Stanley, Fiona J ^c   Newnham, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth weight blood pressure association; Blood pressure; Cigarette smoking; Early childhood; Low birth weight; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033974368     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(99)00064-X     Document Type: Article

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