Does low birth weight confer a lifelong respiratory disadvantage?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-108

  Greenough, Anne ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; EDITORIAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MORBIDITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FETUS MATURITY; LUNG; NEWBORN; NOTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LUNG; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650730834     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200904-0643ED     Document Type: Editorial

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