Factors associated with thymic size at birth among low and normal birth-weight infants

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 713-721

  Eriksen, Helle Brander ^a,b   Biering Sørensen, Sofie ^a,c   Lund, Najaaraq ^a   Correia, Cizete ^c   Rodrigues, Amabelia ^c   Andersen, Andreas ^a   Ravn, Henrik ^a   Aaby, Peter ^a,c   Jeppesen, Dorthe L ^b   Benn, Christine Stabell ^a,c,d  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Guinea-Bissau)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABOR; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN WEIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREPREGNANCY CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYMIC SIZE; THYMUS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; GUINEA-BISSAU; HOSPITALIZATION; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APGAR SCORE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84908254199     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.06.051     Document Type: Article

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