Gastroenterology
Volume 128, Issue 3 , Pages 607-609 , March 2005

Preterm birth, low birth weight, and risk for esophageal adenocarcinoma

  • Magnus Kaijser

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Magnus Kaijser, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Hospital, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Sjukhuset, M9:01, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. fax: (46) 8 5177-9304.
    • ,
  • Olof Akre

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
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  • Sven Cnattingius

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Anders Ekbom

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
    • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 11 March 2004 ,Accepted 11 November 2004.

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 Supported by US Army Grant DAMD17-98-1-8117.

PII: S0016-5085(04)02154-7

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.11.049

Gastroenterology
Volume 128, Issue 3 , Pages 607-609 , March 2005

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