Leptin level in pregnant mothers at term and cord blood and the effect of newborns gender

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 212-214

  Babay, Zainab A ^a   Warsy, Arjumand S ^b   El Hazmi, Mohsen A ^a   Addar, Mohammed H ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH PROMOTOR; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEPTIN; MALE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1442302364     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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