A Clinical Trial of Change in Maternal Smoking and Its Effect on Birth Weight

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 251, Issue 7, 1984, Pages 911-915

  Sexton, Mary ^a   Hebel, J Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETIOLOGY; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SALIVA; SMOKING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THIOCYANATES;

EID: 0021134687     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1984.03340310025013     Document Type: Article

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