Timing is everything: A reconsideration of fetal growth velocity patterns identifies the importance of individual and sex differences

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 667-680

  Lampl, Michelle ^a   Jeanty, Philippe ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Women's Health Alliance   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; FRONTAL BONE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEG LENGTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OCCIPITAL BONE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TIBIA; TIME;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042887430     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.10204     Document Type: Article

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