Twins and maternal smoking: Ordeals for the fetal origins hypothesis? A cohort Study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 318, Issue 7188, 1999, Pages 897-900

  Williams, Sheila ^a   Poulton, Richie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEW ZEALAND; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SMOKING;

EID: 0033518987     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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