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

• Päätekijät: Sauve Reg (Tekijä), Dzakpasu Susie (Tekijä), Ananth Cande V (Tekijä), Platt Robert W (Tekijä), Wen Shi (Tekijä), Demissie Kitaw (Tekijä), Joseph KS (Tekijä), Liu Shiliang (Tekijä), Allen Alexander C (Tekijä), Kramer Michael S (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: BMC, 2003-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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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.<...