Journal:
:iranian journal of public health
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fatemeh atoof dept. of biostatistics & epidemiology, faculty of health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mohammadreza eshraghian dept. of biostatistics & epidemiology, faculty of health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
kazem mohammad dept. of biostatistics & epidemiology, faculty of health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
alireza moravveji social determinants of health research center, dept. of community medicine, faculty of medicine, kashan university of medical sciences, kashan, iran.
mohammadreza sharif dept. of pediatrics, faculty of medicine, kashan university of medical sciences, kashan, iran.
mahmood mahmoodi dept. of biostatistics & epidemiology, faculty of health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
background : twin pregnancies are commonly associated with low birth weight (lbw) infants. most studies focus on growth of lbw compared with normal infants in singleton. however, there has not been any study on twins to com-pare lbw with normal birth weight (nbw) infants as a match control of the same twin. methods : this cohort study was conducted at healthcare centers of kashan, in 2013. twin...