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The effect of maternal pre-/early-pregnancy BMI and pregnancy smoking and alcohol on congenital heart diseases: a parental negative control study
2020-09-30
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<h4>Background</h4> Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) are the most common congenital anomaly. The causes of CHDs are largely unknown, but intrauterine mechanisms appear to be important. Higher prenatal body mass index (BMI), smoking and alcohol consumption are associated with increased risk of CHDs. Whether these are causal is unclear. <h4>Methods</h4> Seven European birth cohorts including 232,390 offspring were i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2eac1163-4991-5ab8-8182-609030bda4d0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.09.29.20203786
