Fetal growth in early pregnancy and risk of delivering low birth weight infant: Prospective cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7598, 2007, Pages 836-838

  Bukowski, R ^a   Smith, G C S ^b   Malone, F D ^b   Ball, R H ^b   Nyberg, D A ^b   Comstock, C H ^b   Hankins, G D V ^b   Berkowitz, R L ^b   Gross, S J ^b   Dugoff, L ^b   Craigo, S D ^b   Timor Tritsch, I E ^b   Carr, S R ^b   Wolfe, H M ^b   D'Alton, M E ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MONITORING; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34247600986     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39129.637917.AE     Document Type: Article

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