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[Maternal occupation, pregnancy length and low birth weight]

Elena Ronda1, Amparo Hernández-Mora, Ana María García

  • 1Area de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España. elena.ronda@ua.es

Gaceta Sanitaria
|March 3, 2009
PubMed
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