Can body mass index accurately predict adiposity in newborns?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  De Cunto, Angela ^a   Paviotti, Giulia ^a   Ronfani, Luca ^a   Travan, Laura ^a   Bua, Jenny ^a   Cont, Gabriele ^a   Demarini, Sergio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; FAT FREE MASS; FAT MASS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NEONATOLOGY; NUTRITION;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84898541369     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305386     Document Type: Article

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