Lifestyle and conception

Textbook of Periconceptional Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-22

  Temel, Sevilay ^a   Laven, Joop S ^a   Steegers Theunissen, Régine P M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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