Updated growth curves for Turkish children aged 15days to 60months

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 454-463

  Gökçay, Gülbin ^a,c   Furman, A ^b   Neyzi, O ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Sagligi Enstitüsü   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Growth; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TURKEY;

EID: 44949212998     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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