Eighty-year trends in infant weight and length growth: The fels longitudinal study

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 762-768

  Johnson, William ^a   Choh, Audrey C ^b   Soloway, Laura E ^c   Czerwinski, Stefan A ^b   Towne, Bradford ^b   Demerath, Ellen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New York State Cancer Registry   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Body mass index

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MATURATION; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859916903     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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