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10/20/2009
A team of researchers, in Great Britain's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford, measured the contribution that smoking during pregnancy has on the social inequality gap in stillbirths and infant deaths. Women in the most socioeconomically deprived category were three times more likely to smoke during pregnancy. The most deprived mothers tended to be younger, more likely to smoke, and give birth to preterm or low birth weight babies.
Source: Science Daily
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