Fetal ultrasound measurements and associations with postnatal outcomes in infancy and childhood: A systematic review of an emerging literature

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-48

  Alkandari, Farah ^a   Ellahi, Awaiss ^a   Aucott, Lorna ^a   Devereux, Graham ^a   Turner, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84916877422     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-204091     Document Type: Article

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