Infant head circumference growth is saltatory and coupled to length growth

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 361-368

  Lampl, Michelle ^a   Johnson, Michael L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic growth; Infancy; Saltation; Short term growth

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN;

BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79954601337     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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