Birth-weight status of newborns and its relationship with other anthropometric parameters in a public maternity hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Health Population and Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 36-41

  Dhar, Bishnupada ^a   Mowlah, Golam ^a   Nahar, Shamsun ^a   Islam, Nazrul ^a  

^a ESP RH Unit   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Bangladesh; Birth weight; Infant, low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0036097425     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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