Gestational age-specific centile charts for anthropometry at birth for south Indian infants

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-202

  Kandraju, Hemasree ^a   Agrawal, Shilpa ^a   Geetha, K ^a   Sujatha, Lakshmi ^b   Subramanian, Sreeram ^a   Murki, Srinivas ^a  

^a Andhra Pradesh India   (India)

^b Nizam's College   (India)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Birth centiles; Gestational age; Indian infants

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CENTILE CHART; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84863103534     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-012-0060-2     Document Type: Article

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