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Patterns of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Birth Weight
Anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. However, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. During recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcm078