Body composition in pregnancies of adolescents and mature women and the relationship to birth anthropometry

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-53

  Thame, M ^a   Trotman, H ^a   Osmond, C ^b   Fletcher, H ^a   Antoine, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN CARE; PREGNANCY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33845527929     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602484     Document Type: Article

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