Cord blood leptin levels in Pakistani newborns: Relationship with birth weight, length and occipitofrontal circumference

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 393-395

  Lakho, Ghulam Rehmani ^a,f   Haq, Zeba ^b   Chundrigar, Tariq ^c   Nazir, Kauser ^d   Qureshi, Masood Anwar ^e  

^a Department of Physiology   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Jinnah Medical and Dental College ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Department of Physiology   (Saudi Arabia)

^f AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Cord blood leptin; Occipitofrontal circumference

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEPTIN; MALE; PAKISTAN;

EID: 33748427913     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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