The performance of various anthropometric assessment methods for predicting low birth weight in adolescent pregnant women

Objective: To evaluate the performance of various anthropometric evaluation methods for adolescent pregnant women in the prediction of birth weight. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study including 826 adolescent pregnant women. In the pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) classification, the rec...

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Main Authors: Denise Cavalcante de Barros, Cláudia Saunders, Marta Maria Antonieta de Souza Santos, Beatriz Della Líbera, Silvana Granado Nogueira da Gama, Maria do Carmo Leal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2014-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2014000300761&lng=en&tlng=en