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Maternal Shoe Size and Infant Birth Weight: Correlation or Fiction?

Mark B. Stephens, Debra A. Manning, Amy Arnold-Canuso and David M. Haas
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2006, 19 (4) 426-428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.4.426
Mark B. Stephens
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Amy Arnold-Canuso
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Mark B. Stephens, Debra A. Manning, Amy Arnold-Canuso, David M. Haas
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Jul 2006, 19 (4) 426-428; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.4.426

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Mark B. Stephens, Debra A. Manning, Amy Arnold-Canuso, David M. Haas
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