Association of Cord Plasma Leptin With Birth Size in Term Newborns

Pediatrics and Neonatology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 255-260

  Tung, Wing Kuen ^a   Lin, Shio Jean ^b   Hwang, Yea Shwu ^b   Wu, Ching Ming ^b   Wang, Yun Han ^c   Tsai, Wen Hui ^a,b  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

birth weight; leptin; newborn; obesity; umbilical cord blood

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TAIWAN; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEPTIN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TAIWAN;

EID: 71849110945     PISSN: 18759572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1875-9572(09)60073-5     Document Type: Article

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