TY - BOOK AU - Mohsen Abdelsattar Abdelaziz AU - Dalia Sayed Mosallam , AU - Hala Mufeed Ibrahim Said , AU - Hanna Mohamed Aboulghar , TI - Association of cord plasma leptin with weight of Egyptian trem newborns at birth and 1 year of age / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohsen Abdelsattar Abdelaziz , KW - Birth weight KW - Leptin KW - Term neonate N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Background : Birthweight is a strong predictor of both neonatal mortality and morbidity and it reflects fetal growth rates in the antenatal period . Leptin is an emerging important hormone and its function is to control energy homestasis and body weight . Many studies have found relationship between leptin and birthweight . Aim of the work : The purpose of our study was to investigate the relationship between venous umbilical cord plasma leptin and anthropometric markers at birth in a group of Egyptian trem healty newborns UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -