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Health & Medicine - Friday, March 12, 2010 18:11 - 0 Comments
Pregnancy problems surface after earthquake
By measuring birth outcomes for infants born before, during, and after the 2005 earthquake in Tarapaca, as well as those born within and outside the affected regions, and controlling for maternal and county-level characteristics, the study isolated the effect of exposure to the catastrophe from other determinants of birthweight. Above, a street in Tarapaca following the quake. (Courtesy: Diego Salgado/Flickr)
NYU (US)—Expectant mothers who were exposed to the 2005 Tarapaca earthquake in Chile were more likely to give birth prematurely than those women in the nation’s unaffected regions. Continue…
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