Effect of reducing caffeine intake on birth weight and length of gestation: randomised controlled trial

Bodil Hammer Bech1, Carsten Obel, Tine Brink Henriksen

  • 1Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. bhb@soci.au.dk

BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
|January 30, 2007
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