Gender- and gestational age-specific body fat percentage at birth

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hawkes, Colin P ^a,b   Hourihane, Jonathan O'B ^a   Kenny, Louise C ^a   Irvine, Alan D ^c   Kiely, Mairead ^a   Murray, Deirdre M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

^c National Children's Research Centre   (Ireland)

^d University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Body composition; Body fat; Fetal growth; Plethsymography; Sneonatal

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY FAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERCENTAGE BODY FAT; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80052378538     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-3856     Document Type: Article

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