Sunflower oil versus no oil moderate pressure massage leads to greater increases in weight in preterm neonates who are low birth weight

Early Human Development

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 769-772

  Fallah, Razieh ^a   Akhavan Karbasi, Sedighah ^a   Golestan, Motahhareh ^a   Fromandi, Mostafa ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Growth parameters; Low birth weight; Massage; Oil; Sunflower

Indexed keywords

SUNFLOWER OIL;

ACUPRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84881370984     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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