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Assessing newborn body composition using principal components analysis: differences in the determinants of fat and skeletal size

BACKGROUND: Birth weight is a composite of skeletal size and soft tissue. These components are likely to have different growth patterns. The aim of this paper is to investigate the association between established determinants of birth weight and these separate components. METHODS: Weight, length, cr...

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Autores principales: Shields, Beverley M, Knight, Bridget A, Powell, Roy J, Hattersley, Andrew T, Wright, David E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1562417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16916439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-6-24

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