Anthropometric surrogates to identify low birth weight Nepalese newborns: A hospital-based study

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T ^a   Chuni, Neena ^a   Patil, Rajkumar ^a   Singh, Dela ^b   Shakya, Brishna ^a  

^a MANIPAL TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^b Western Regional Hospital   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEPAL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THIGH; THORAX; ARM; CEPHALOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEG; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; CEPHALOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; NEPAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THIGH; THORAX;

EID: 44149104921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-8-16     Document Type: Article

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