Birth-weight differences at term are explained by placental dysfunction and not by maternal ethnicity
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Placental weight: relation to maternal weight and growth parameters of full-term babies at birth and during childhood.
OBJECTIVE Human growth is a continuous process. Studies defining placental effect on prenatal and postnatal human growth are few. We studied the anthropometric data of hundred mothers who gave birth at term after an uncomplicated singleton pregnancy, and their infants in relation to their placental weight using linear regression analysis. Mother weight, placental weight, and infant length (BL),...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0960-7692
DOI: 10.1002/uog.19025