The first 1000 days of life: Prenatal and postnatal risk factors for morbidity and growth in a birth cohort in southern India

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Kattula, Deepthi ^a   Sarkar, Rajiv ^a   Sivarathinaswamy, Prabhu ^a   Velusamy, Vasanthakumar ^a   Venugopal, Srinivasan ^a   Naumova, Elena N ^a,b   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^a   Ward, Honorine ^a,c   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT GAIN; ADOLESCENT; COST OF ILLNESS; GROWTH; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904644469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005404     Document Type: Article

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