Anthropometry of fetal growth in rural Malawi in relation to maternal malaria and HIV status

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Kalanda, B F ^a,b   Van Buuren, S ^c   Verhoeff, F H ^a   Brabin, B J ^a,d  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALAWI; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAVIDITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALARIA; MALAWI; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 14744290432     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.054650     Document Type: Article

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