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Measuring Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Activity in Toddlers - Resting and Developmental Challenges
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Current status of the National Children's Study
Steven Hirschfeld1, Barnett Kramer, Alan Guttmacher
1National Children's Health Study, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD 28014, USA. hirschfs@mail.nih.gov
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
|July 16, 2010
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