Are babies getting bigger? Secular trends in fetal growth in Israel - A retrospective hospital-based cohort study

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 649-651

  Davidson, Shmuel ^a,b   Litwin, Aviva ^a,b   Peleg, Dan ^a,b   Erlich, Avraham ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Birth length; Birth weight; Head circumference; Secular trend

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34848849854     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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