Commentary: Smoking, birthweight and mortality: Jacob yerushalmy on self-selection and the pitfalls of causal inference

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1373-1377

  Parascandola, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOTE; PRENATAL CARE; SMOKING HABIT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84913538356     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu163     Document Type: Note

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