The INTERGROWTH-21st Project and the Multicenter Growth Reference Study: Enhanced opportunities for monitoring growth from early pregnancy to 5 years of age

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 341-344

  Garza, Cutberto ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MONITORING; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREMATURITY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907045594     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2014.0106     Document Type: Article

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