Maternal menstrual history and small-for-gestational-age births in a population-based Chinese birth cohort

Early Human Development

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 183-192

  Xu, Baizhuang ^a,e   Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^b   Xu, Xiaoxing ^a   Wang, Zongxian ^b   Qin, Huaying ^c   Rimpelä, Arja ^d  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Qingdao Mother Child Hlth Care I ^*

^c People'1s 5Th Hospital of Qingdao   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chinese; Menarche; Menstrual cycle; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHINA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0343488463     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(97)00031-5     Document Type: Article

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