Low birth weight for gestation and airway function in infancy: Exploring the fetal origins hypothesis

Thorax

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-66

  Dezateux, C ^a   Lum, S ^b   Hoo, A F ^b   Hawdon, J ^c   Costeloe, K ^d   Stocks, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VOLUME; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0347319037     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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