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Author’s Reply to a Letter to the Editor Regarding “The Association Between Inadequate Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Mortality Among U.S. Infants Born in 2002”

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  1. Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Regina R. Davis & Sandra L. Hofferth

  2. American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, 20001, USA

    Regina R. Davis

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Davis, R.R., Hofferth, S.L. Author’s Reply to a Letter to the Editor Regarding “The Association Between Inadequate Gestational Weight Gain and Infant Mortality Among U.S. Infants Born in 2002”. Matern Child Health J 16, 747–748 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-012-1014-y

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