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Birth Weight and Risk for Childhood Leukemia in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland
19 Oct 2004
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BACKGROUND: Compelling evidence suggests that childhood leukemia often originates in utero. Birth weight is one of the few pregnancy-related risk factors that has been associated with leukemia risk, but the association has remained poorly characterized. We conducted a population-based case-control study in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland to investigate the association between birth weight (and other birth...
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