Are Babies Born to Short, Primiparous, or Thin Mothers "Normally" or "Abnormally" Small?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Xun ^a   Cnattingius, Sven ^b   Platt, Robert W ^a   Joseph, K S ^c   Kramer, Michael S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SHORT STATURE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

EID: 34248598381     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.01.048     Document Type: Article

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