Growth of a cohort of very low birth weight infants in Johannesburg, South Africa

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mackay, Cheryl A ^a   Ballot, Daynia E ^a   Cooper, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTH AFRICA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79957445920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-50     Document Type: Article

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