Fetal growth and birth size is associated with maternal anthropometry and body composition

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 574-582

  Thame, Minerva ^a   Osmond, Clive ^b   Trotman, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body composition; Fetal growth; Maternal anthropometry

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH SIZE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN HEEL LENGTH; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; NEWBORN; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; JAMAICA; PREGNANCY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942549328     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12027     Document Type: Article

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