Birth weight for gestational age norms for a large cohort of infants born to HIV-negative women in Botswana compared with norms for U.S.-born black infants

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Matthews, Lynn T ^a,b   Ribaudo, Heather J ^c   Parekh, Natasha K ^d   Chen, Jennifer Y ^e   Binda, Kelebogile ^f   Ogwu, Anthony ^f   Makhema, Joseph ^f   Souda, Sajini ^f   Lockman, Shahin ^g   Essex, Max ^c   Shapiro, Roger L ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BOTSWANA HARVARD AIDS INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BOTSWANA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL VALUE; REFERENCE VALUE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIROLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; BIRTH WEIGHT; BOTSWANA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIV; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455186394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-115     Document Type: Article

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