Modulators of length of gestation

In order to ascertain correlates of gestational age and predictors of prematurity, all the mothers delivered in 1993 at the maternity clinic of the First University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and at one division of a private maternity hospital in Athens, Greece, were interviewed. From...

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Published in:European journal of public health 1996-09, Vol.6 (3), p.159-165
Main Authors: PETRIDOU, ELENI, TRICHOPOULOS, DIMITRIOS, TONG, DONALD, REVINTHI, KATHARINE, TSITSIKA, ARTEMIS, PAPATHOMA, EUGENIA, ARAVANTINOS, DIONYSIOS
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