The late effects of fetal growth patterns

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Bloomfield, F H ^a   Oliver, M H ^a   Harding, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY BUILD; CONCEPTION; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LONG TERM CARE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TWINS;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SHEEP;

EID: 33745859349     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.076646     Document Type: Review

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