Newborns of preeclamptic women show evidence of sex-specific disparity in fetal growth

Gender Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 424-435

  Reynolds, Simone A ^a,b   Roberts, James M ^a,c   Bodnar, Lisa M ^a,c   Haggerty, Catherine L ^a,c   Youk, Ada O ^a   Catov, Janet M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative Perinatal Project; fetal growth; impaired growth; preeclampsia; sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT INDEX;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SEX FACTORS; TERM BIRTH; THORAX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870503707     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: 18787398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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