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High birth weight and perinatal mortality among siblings: A register based study in Norway, 1967-2011

BACKGROUND: Perinatal mortality according to birth weight has an inverse J-pattern. Our aim was to estimate the influence of familial factors on this pattern, applying a cohort sibling design. We focused on excess mortality among macrosomic infants (>2 SD above the mean) and hypothesized that the...

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Autores principales: Kristensen, Petter, Keyes, Katherine M., Susser, Ezra, Corbett, Karina, Mehlum, Ingrid Sivesind, Irgens, Lorentz M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28245262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172891