Low birth weight and retinal vascular caliber in young children

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 862-863

  Cheung, Ning ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^a   Liew, Gerald ^b   Saw, Seang M ^c   Tapp, J Robyn ^d,e   Witt, Nicholas ^d   Chaturvedi, Nish ^d   Evans, Richard ^d   Thom, Simon A ^d   Hughes, Alun D ^d   Ness, Andrew ^f   Williams, Cathy ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; STROKE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEWBORN; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VEIN; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42949094245     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3326     Document Type: Letter

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