Anthropometry, nutrition status and thymic size of gypsy newborns from southwestern Slovakia

Bratislava Medical Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 354-357

  Varga, I ^a,b   Toth, F ^c   Uhrinova, A ^c   Nescakova, E ^d   Pospisilova, V ^a   Polak, S ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c ForLife General Hospital   (Slovakia)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Gypsy and non Gypsy newborns; Nutrition status; Size of thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; GIPSY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SLOVAKIA; STATISTICS; THYMUS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; GYPSIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SLOVAKIA; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 68549086916     PISSN: 00069248     EISSN: 13360345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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