On the importance--and the unimportance--of birthweight.

By A. Wilcox. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001

913 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Risk factors for autism: perinatal factors, parental psychiatric history, and socioeconomic status. (2005, background): “The genetic growth potential is unknown, making it difficult to disentangle the effect of these factors (33).”
• A life course approach to diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases (2004, background): “There are recognized limitations in using low birth weight to capture the range of potentially important exposures in utero 19 .”