Birth weight reference percentiles for Chinese

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Dai, Li ^a   Deng, Changfei ^a   Li, Yanhua ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Mu, Yi ^a   Deng, Ying ^a   Mao, Meng ^a   Wang, Yanping ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Ma, Shuangge ^b   Ma, Xiaomei ^b   Zhang, Yawei ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; CHINESE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SURVEY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHINA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84938983748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104779     Document Type: Article

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