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Exposure to tobacco smoke and low birth weight: from epidemiology to metabolomics.
Expert review of proteomics - 1 Aug 2018
Dessì Angelica, Corona Laura, Pintus Roberta, Fanos Vassilios
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INTRODUCTION: The exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is one of the leading causes of perinatal adverse outcomes such as stillbirth, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), and low birth weight, but the underlying biological mechanisms are still unclear. The incidence of this phenomenon maybe largely underestimated since the evaluation is made mainly by self-assessment questionnaires rather than measuring...
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