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Maternal hemoglobin concentration during pregnancy and risk of infant leukaemia: a children's oncology group study.

Peters AM, Blair CK, Verneris MR, Neglia JP, Robison LL, Spector LG, Reaman GH, Felix CA, Ross JA,

Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

In contrast to the positive association found in three studies between maternal anaemia during pregnancy and childhood leukaemia, no such association was found in infant leukaemia (odds ratio 0.85, 95% confidence interval 0.53-1.37).

Published 1 November 2006 in Br J Cancer, 95(9): 1274-6.
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