Predictors of low birth weight infants in the north west province of Iran: A case-control study

International Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1983-1991

  Karamzad, Nahid ^a   Safiri, Saeid ^b,c   Amiri, Samira ^c   Syedi, Naeema ^d   Ebrahimi Mameghani, Mehrangiz ^e   Moosazadeh, Mahmood ^f   Qorbani, Mostafa ^g   Abbasi Ghahramanloo, Abbas ^h  

^a MARAGHEH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g ALBORZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Case control study; Epidemiology; Iran; Low birth weight; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006973662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23455055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22038/ijp.2016.6949     Document Type: Article

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