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Testing an infection model to explain excess risk of preterm birth with long-term iron supplementation in a malaria endemic area

BACKGROUND: In view of recent evidence from a randomized trial in Burkina Faso that periconceptional iron supplementation substantially increases risk of spontaneous preterm birth (< 37 weeks) in first pregnancies (adjusted relative risk = 2.22; 95% CI 1.39–3.61), explanation is required to under...

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Autores principales: Brabin, Bernard, Tinto, Halidou, Roberts, Stephen A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-3013-6