A new birthweight reference in Guangzhou, southern China, and its comparison with the global reference

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1091-1097

  He, Jian Rong ^a   Xia, Hui Min ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Xia, Xiao Yan ^a   Mo, Wei Jian ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Cheng, Kar Keung ^b   Leung, Gabriel M ^c   Feng, Qiong ^a   Schooling, C Mary ^c,d   Qiu, Xiu ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU WOMEN AND CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL FOR LOCATION SCALE AND SHAPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEWBORN; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; HEALTH; INFANT; PREGNANCY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84910154875     PISSN: 17430585     EISSN: 17430593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305923     Document Type: Article

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