A parsimonious explanation for intersecting perinatal mortality curves: understanding the effect of plurality and of parity

• Main Authors: Sauve Reg (Author), Dzakpasu Susie (Author), Ananth Cande V (Author), Platt Robert W (Author), Wen Shi (Author), Demissie Kitaw (Author), Joseph KS (Author), Liu Shiliang (Author), Allen Alexander C (Author), Kramer Michael S (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2003-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Birth weight- and gestational age-specific perinatal mortality curves intersect when compared across categories of maternal smoking, plurality, race and other factors. No simple explanation exists for this paradoxical observation.<...