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Pattern of pregnancy weight gain in homozygous sickle cell disease and effect on birth size.
The West Indian medical journal - 1 Jan 2011
Thame M, Lewis J, Hambleton I, Trotman H, Serjeant G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess pregnancy weight gain and newborn anthropometry in mothers with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and normal controls. METHODS: An eleven-year retrospective review at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, revealed 128 singleton deliveries in women with SS disease who were matched by maternal age and birth date with 128 controls with a normal AA phenotype....
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