Risk of Twinning as a Function of Maternal Height and Body Mass Index [6]

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1564-1566

  Basso, Olga ^a   Nohr, Ellen Aagaard ^a   Christensen, Kaare ^b   Olsen, Jørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFERTILITY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL CARE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TWIN ZYGOSITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TWINS;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RISK; TWINS;

EID: 1842486065     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.13.1564-c     Document Type: Letter

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