The effect of birthweight on childhood cognitive development in a middle-income country

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1008-1018

  Torche, Florencia ^a   Echevarría, Ghislaine ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Birthweight; Cognitive development; Developing countries; Fixed effects; Twin studies; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFANT MORTALITY; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILE; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATHEMATICS; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051921322     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr030     Document Type: Article

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