Thresholds for Small for Gestational Age Among Newborns of East Asian and South Asian Ancestry

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 322-330

  Ray, Joel G ^a   Jiang, Depeng ^b   Sgro, Michael ^a   Shah, Rajiv ^a   Singh, Gita ^a   Mamdani, Muhammad M ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Birth weight curve; East Asian; Ethnicity; Low birth weight; Race; Small for gestational age; South Asian

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAMBODIA; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EAST ASIAN; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDIA; INDONESIA; JAPAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; PLESIOMORPHY; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SMOKING; SOUTH ASIAN; SRI LANKA; TAIWAN; VALIDATION STUDY; VIET NAM; ADULT; ASIA; ASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE;

EID: 68049100095     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)34149-4     Document Type: Article

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