Maternal education and offspring birth weight for gestational age: the mediating effect of smoking during pregnancy
ConclusionsThe relationship between maternal educational attainment and child birth weight for GA is strongly mediated by smoking during pregnancy. Reducing maternal smoking could lessen the occurrence of infant SGA and decrease socioeconomic inequalities in birth weight for GA.
Source: The European Journal of Public Health - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
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