Placental Malaria is associated with reduced early life weight development of affected children independent of low birth weight

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Walther, Brigitte ^a   Miles, David Jc ^a,b   Crozier, Sarah ^a,c   Waight, Pauline ^a,d   Palmero, Melba S ^a,e   Ojuola, Olubukola ^a,f   Touray, Ebrima ^a   Sande, Marianne Van Der ^a,g   Whittle, Hilton ^a   Rowland Jones, Sarah ^a,h   Flanagan, Katie L ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e Adventist Community Services of Alaska   (United States)

^f BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^h JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLACENTAL MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; GAMBIA; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDER; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMBIA; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949700017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-16     Document Type: Article

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