Maternal smoking affects fetal growth more in the male fetus

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 118-126

  Zarén, Birgitta ^a   Lindmark, Gunilla ^a   Bakketeig, Leiv ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCANDINAVIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034032573     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2000.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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