Effects of being born small for gestational age on long-term intellectual performance

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 477-488

  Lundgren, Ester Maria ^a   Tuvemo, Torsten ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

breast feeding; GH therapy; intellectual development; IQ; SGA

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CALORIC INTAKE; CATCH UP GROWTH; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS;

EID: 44449134791     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.01.014     Document Type: Review

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