Infant weight-for-length is positively associated with subsequent linear growth across four different populations

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-20

  Dewey, Kathryn G ^a   Hawck, Mette G ^a   Brown, Kenneth H ^a   Lartey, Anna ^b   Cohen, Roberta J ^a   Peerson, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Body composition; Breast feeding; Fatness; Infant growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GHANA; HONDURAS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; UNITED STATES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGING; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GHANA; HONDURAS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28244463923     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2004.00004.x     Document Type: Article

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