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Changes in prepregnancy body mass index between pregnancies and risk of preterm phenotypes.
American journal of perinatology - 1 Jan 2011
Whiteman Valerie E, Rao Kiran, Duan Jingyi, Alio Amina, Marty Phillip J, Salihu Hamisu M
Abstract excerpt
We examined whether the risk of preterm birth and its subtypes (medically indicated and spontaneous preterm) are influenced by changes in prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) between the first and second pregnancies. A population-based, retrospective cohort analysis was performed using the Missouri (1978 to 2005) longitudinally linked cohort data sets. Women with their first two successive singleton live births ( N...
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