Revisiting the Effect of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy on Offspring Birthweight: A Quasi-Experimental Sibling Analysis in Sweden

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Juárez, Sol Pía ^a,b   Merlo, Juan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NEONATAL WEIGHT LOSS; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMOKING CESSATION; SWEDEN; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; AGED; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETICS; HABIT; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIBLING; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RECURRENCE; SIBLINGS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876218063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061734     Document Type: Article

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