Correlation between birth weight and maternal body composition

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-50

  Kent, Etaoin ^a   O'Dwyer, Vicky ^a   Fattah, Chro ^a   Farah, Nadine ^a   O'Connor, Clare ^a   Turner, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOELECTRIC IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FAT FREE MASS; FAT MASS; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872116330     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31827a0052     Document Type: Article

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