Causes and consequences of intrauterine growth retardation in Latin America.
Pérez-Escamilla R, Pollitt E. Causes and consequences of intrauterine growth retardation in Latin America. Bulletin Of The Pan American Health Organization 1992, 26: 128-47. PMID: 1379099.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIntrauterine growth retardationGrowth retardationMental developmentIUGR infantsNeonatal morbidityPerinatal morbidityIUGR newbornsGestational ageMaternal malnutritionBirth weightHigh riskTenth percentileBirth measurementsNewbornsBody proportionalityBirth dataEarly childhoodMorbidityPoverty-related factorsHealth assessmentHospital infrastructureRiskAvailable literatureCauseImportant determinant