Self-reported illness and birth weight in the Philippines: Implications for hypotheses of adaptive fetal plasticity

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 538-544

  Heinke, Dominique ^a   Kuzawa, Christopher W ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GENDER BIAS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; MACRONUTRIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; PHILIPPINES; PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHILIPPINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 52249116054     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20771     Document Type: Article

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