Changes in booking body mass index over a decade: Retrospective analysis from a Glasgow Maternity Hospital

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1431-1433

  Kanagalingam, Malini G ^a   Forouhi, Nita G ^b   Greer, Ian A ^a   Sattar, Naveed ^c  

^a Division of Developmental Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MATERNITY WARD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PARITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 27844564364     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00685.x     Document Type: Article

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