Effects of grandmothers' smoking in pregnancy on birth weight: Intergenerational cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 327, Issue 7420, 2003, Pages 898-900

  Hyppönen, Elina ^a   Smith, George Davey ^b   Power, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MOTHERS; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SMOKING;

EID: 0142105923     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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