Periodontitis and pre-term low birth weight
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Malnutrition in very low birth-weight, pre-term infants.
When a very low birth-weight, pre-term infant is compared with a foetus o i equivalent gestational age in utero it becomes apparent that he is suffering from malnutrition, and is at times close to death from starvation. There is evidence for this from a variety of sources and it is my purpose to present some of this evidence and to consider the problems we have encountered with pre-term babies ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Dental Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0045-0421
DOI: 10.1111/j.1834-7819.2007.tb06129.x