Birthweight centile charts for South Asian infants born in the UK

Neonatology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 398-403

  Seaton, Sarah E ^a   Yadav, Kamini D ^a   Field, David J ^a   Khunti, Kamlesh ^a   Manktelow, Bradley N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birthweight; Centile; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BIRTH WEIGHT CENTILE CHART; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA, WESTERN; BIRTH WEIGHT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 79960691828     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325916     Document Type: Article

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