Fetal growth and cardiovascular risk factors in Jamaican schoolchildren.

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Published in BMJ on January 20, 1996

Authors

T E Forrester1, R J Wilks, F I Bennett, D Simeon, C Osmond, M Allen, A P Chung, P Scott

Author Affiliations

1: Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.

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