Fetal subcutaneous tissue measurements in pregnancy as a predictor of neonatal total body composition

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 952-955

  O'Connor, Clare ^a,b   Doolan, Anne ^d   O'Higgins, Amy ^b   Segurado, Ricardo ^c   Sheridan Pereiraet, Margaret ^d   Turner, Michael J ^b   Stuart, Bernard ^a,b   Kennelly, Máireád M ^a,b  

^a Tallaght and Coombe Women's and Infant's University Hospital   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY COMPOSITION ANALYZER; BODY DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ECHOGRAPHY; OBESITY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADIPOSITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84908245050     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4400     Document Type: Article

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