Determinants of low birth weight in urban Pakistan

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 789-798

  Janjua, Naveed Zafar ^a,b   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Larson, Rodney R ^c   Meleth, Sreelatha ^d   Kristensen, Sibylle ^a   Kabagambe, Edmond ^a   Sathiakumar, Nalini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead; Low birth weight; Mid upper arm circumference; Newborn; Pakistan; Pregnancy; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; LEAD;

ADULT; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PAKISTAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD; URBAN AREA; VITAMIN INTAKE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FETUS BLOOD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASCORBIC ACID; BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67650756953     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008002942     Document Type: Article

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