Prevalence of small-for-gestational-age and its mortality risk varies by choice of birth-weight-for-gestation reference population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Katz, Joanne ^a   Wu, Lauren A ^a   Mullany, Luke C ^a   Coles, Christian L ^a   Lee, Anne C C ^b   Kozuki, Naoko ^a   Tielsch, James M ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMMUNITY SAMPLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK; RURAL POPULATION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84898634022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092074     Document Type: Article

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