Describing differences in weight and length growth trajectories between white and Pakistani infants in the UK: Analysis of the Born in Bradford birth cohort study using multilevel linear spline models

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 274-279

  Fairley, Lesley ^a   Petherick, Emily S ^a   Howe, Laura D ^b   Tilling, Kate ^b   Cameron, Noel ^c   Lawlor, Debbie A ^b   West, Jane ^a   Wright, John ^a  

^a BRADFORD INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WEIGHT GAIN; BIRTH; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; MATERNAL SMOKING; PAKISTAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GROWTH; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84876190442     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-302778     Document Type: Article

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