Maternal anthropometry as a predictor of birth weight

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 965-970

  Nahar, Shamsun ^a,b   Mascie Taylor, C G N ^a   Begum, Housne Ara ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b National Institute for Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Low birth weight; Maternal anthropometry; Predictor of low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL WELFARE; MULTIPARA; NULLIPARA; PREDICTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; PARITY; POVERTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 34547750004     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007217975     Document Type: Article

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