Maternal Height and Child Growth Patterns
Publication information:
Consortium on Health Orientated Research in Transitional Societies Group, Yaw Addo, Aryeh D. Stein, Caroline H. Fall, Denise P. Gigante, Aravinda M. Guntupalli, Bernardo L. Horta, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Nanette Lee, Shane A. Norris, Poornima Prabhakaran, Linda M. Richter, Harshpal S. Sachdev, and Reynaldo Martorell. 2013. “Maternal Height and Child Growth Patterns”. The Journal of Pediatrics, 163, 2, Pp. 549-554.e1,. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.02.002
Abstract
ObjectiveTo examine associations between maternal height and child growth during 4 developmental periods: intrauterine, birth to age 2 years, age 2 years to mid-childhood (MC), and MC to adulthood.