Commentary: Maternal nutrition, body proportions at birth, and adult chronic disease

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 837-838

  Kramer, Michael S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; CHILD GROWTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUNGER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NOTE; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 4644253633     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh165     Document Type: Note

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