Intergenerational effects of early life nutrition: Maternal leg length predicts offspring placental weight and birth weight among women in rural Luzon, Philippines

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 652-659

  Chung, Green C ^a   Kuzawa, Christopher W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; LEG; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; PHILIPPINES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHILIPPINES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906276963     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22579     Document Type: Article

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