Coffee and smoking as risk factors of twin pregnancies: The Danish National Birth Cohort

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 597-603

  Morales Suárez Varela, Maria M ^a,b,f   Bech, Bodil Hammer ^c   Christensen, Kaare ^d   Olsen, Jorn ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COFFEE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; COFFEE; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 34548216320     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.4.597     Document Type: Article

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