Maternal Height and Preterm Birth: A Study on 192,432 Swedish Women
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Maternal Height and Preterm Birth: A Study on 192,432 Swedish Women.
BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that lower maternal stature is associated with shorter gestational length in the offspring. We examined the association between maternal height and the likelihood of delivering preterm babies in a large and homogeneous cohort of Swedish women. METHODS This study covers antenatal data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register on 192,432 women (aged 26.0 ye...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154304