Body composition, smoking, and spontaneous dizygotic twinning

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 885-893

  Hoekstra, Chantal ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   van Beijsterveldt, C E M Toos ^a   Lambalk, Cornelius B ^c   Montgomery, Grant W ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body composition; educational attainment; gravidity; maternal age; multiple pregnancies; smoking

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SMOKING; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949102762     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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