Pregnancy in dark winters: Implications for fetal bone growth?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 206-211

  Walsh, Jennifer M ^a   Kilbane, Mark ^b   McGowan, Ciara A ^a   McKenna, Malachi J ^b   McAuliffe, Fionnuala M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

fetal femur length; Fetal growth; pregnancy; vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BONE GROWTH; BONE LENGTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WINTER;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84871924493     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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