## Abstract **BACKGROUND**: The objective of this study was to assess, in a large data set from Swedish Medical Health Registries, whether maternal obesity and maternal morbid obesity were associated with an increased risk for various structural birth defects. **METHODS**: The study population cons
Maternal obesity and morbid obesity: The risk for birth defects in the offspring
✍ Scribed by Marie I. Blomberg; Bengt Källén
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1542-0752
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