Growth in foetal life and infancy is associated with abdominal adiposity at the age of 2 years: The generation R study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 633-640

  Durmuş, Büşra ^a,b   Mook Kanamori, Dennis O ^a,b   Holzhauer, Susanne ^a,b   Hofman, Albert ^a   Van Der Beek, Eline M ^c   Boehm, Güenther ^c   Steegers, Eric A P ^a   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^c DANONE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; INFANCY; MALE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 77950289839     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03708.x     Document Type: Article

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