Quantifying the Impact of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Maternal Weight and Race on Birthweight via Quantile Regression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ellerbe, Caitlyn N ^a   Gebregziabher, Mulugeta ^a,b   Korte, Jeffrey E ^a   Mauldin, Jill ^a   Hunt, Kelly J ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GESTATIONAL BODY WEIGHT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PREVALENCE; QUANTILE REGRESSION; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOUTH CAROLINA; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84878868414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065017     Document Type: Article

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