Nutritional assessment of very low birth weight infants: Relationships between anthropometric and biochemical parameters

Nutricion Hospitalaria

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-329

  Cardoso, L E Monteiro Bigélli ^a   Falção, M Cícero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropometric parameters; Nutritional assessment; Prealbumin; Retinol binding protein; Very low birth weight infants

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; PREALBUMIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD NUTRITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT INDEX;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34250007965     PISSN: 02121611     EISSN: 16995198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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