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. 1998 Nov 1;89(6):419–420. doi: 10.1007/BF03404087

Prevalence of Low and High Birthweight Among the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec

Irene E Armstrong 114,, Elizabeth J Robinson 214, Katherine Gray-Donald 314,
PMCID: PMC6990269  PMID: 9926504

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Footnotes

I.E. Armstrong received support from the Medical Research Council of Canada “National Exchange Award”

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