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Title
The social gradient in birthweight at term: quantification of the mediating role of maternal smoking and body mass index.
Authors
Mortensen, Laust H; Diderichsen, Finn; Smith, George Davey; Andersen, Anne Marie Nybo
Abstract
Maternal education is associated with the birthweight of offspring. We sought to quantify the role of maternal body mass index (BMI) and smoking as intermediary variables between maternal education and birthweight at term.
Publication
Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 2009, Vol 24, Issue 10, p2629