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Public Library of Science, PLoS Medicine, 8(6), p. e1000135, 2009

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000135

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Decreased Bone Mineral Density in Adults Born with Very Low Birth Weight: A Cohort Study

Journal article published in 2009 by Petteri Hovi, Sture Andersson, Järvenpää Al, Anna-Liisa Järvenpää, Johan G. Eriksson, Eriksson Jg, Sonja Strang-Karlsson, Eero Kajantie, Outi Mäkitie ORCID
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Abstract

Petteri Hovi and colleagues evaluate skeletal health in 144 adults born preterm with very low birth weight and show that as adults these individuals have significantly lower bone mineral density than do their term-born peers.