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Original Article

The growth pattern of 0–1-year-old Danish children, when screened by public health nurses—The Copenhagen County Child Cohort 2000

Else Marie Olsen Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark; Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Centre, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
,
Janne Petersen Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
,
Anne Mette Skovgaard Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Centre, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
,
Birthe Lykke Thomsen Institute for Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Torben Jørgensen Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
&
Birgitte Weile Department of Paediatrics, Gentofte University Hospital, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 297-315 | Received 18 Aug 2004, Accepted 19 Jan 2005, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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