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Original Article

Reproductive versus chronologic age as a predictor of low birth weight, preterm delivery and intrauterine growth retardation in primiparous women

Laura E. Mitchell Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, and Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University Medical School
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Michael B. Bracken Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, and Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University Medical School
Pages 377-386 | Received 08 May 1989, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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