Low weight gain in infancy and suicide in adult life.

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Published in BMJ on November 04, 1995

Authors

D J Barker1, C Osmond, I Rodin, C H Fall, P D Winter

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital.

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