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Placental Hormones and the Control of Fetal Growth
1 May 2010
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The weight of a child at birth is a critical determinant of neonatal morbidity and mortality and the risk of metabolic disease throughout the life span: growth retarded [intrauterine growth retardation/small for gestational age (SGA)] infants are predisposed to hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hypothermia, asphyxia, and cognitive dysfunction; those who have rapid catch-up weight gain in early childhood are at...
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