Birth weight and environmental heat load: a between-population analysis.

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Published in Am J Phys Anthropol on November 01, 2002

Authors

Jonathan C K Wells1, Tim J Cole

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK. J.Wells@ich.ucl.ac.uk

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