A longitudinal study of weight gain in pregnancy in Malawi: Unconditional and conditional standards1-3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 296-301

  Xu, Jiajun ^a   Luntamo, Mari ^b   Kulmala, Teija ^b,c   Ashorn, Per ^b,d   Cheung, Yin Bun ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALAWI; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALAWI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84893382325     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.113.074120     Document Type: Article

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