Thinness at birth in a northern industrial town.
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Thinness at birth in a northern industrial town.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether babies in an area of Britain with unusually high perinatal mortality have different patterns of fetal growth to those born elsewhere in the country. DESIGN Measurement of body size in newborn babies. SETTING Burnley (perinatal mortality in 1988 15.9/1000 total births) and Salisbury (perinatal mortality 10.8/1000 total births), England. SUBJECTS Subjects comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.47.4.255