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Conceptual model of pathways contributing to newborn size. Conceptual model of how maternal characteristics or maternal direct exposures during follow‐up (defined as predictor variables) could contribute to newborn size (outcome variables weight‐for‐age Z‐score [WAZ] and length‐for‐age Z‐score [LAZ]) either directly or through intermediary variables that follow from a direct exposure. Hb = haemoglobin; AGP = α‐1‐acid glycoprotein; BMI = body mass index
