Does maternal height affect triplets' birth weight?

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Blumenfeld, Zeev ^a   Lowenstein, Lior ^a   Brook, Olga ^a   Gonen, Ron ^b   Ophir, Ela ^c   Samueloff, Arnon ^d  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^d SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Birthweight; Maternal height; Premature delivery; Triplets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARAMETER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS; TRIPLETS;

EID: 30944437853     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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