Achieving Lower Preterm Birth Rates in China via Reductions in Iatrogenic Preterm Births

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¹ The author is with the Sino-American Translational Research Center for Developmental Disabilities, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; and the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY.

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Nanbert Zhong. Am J Public Health. 2019 Nov.

. 2019 Nov;109(11):1489-1490.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305352.

¹ The author is with the Sino-American Translational Research Center for Developmental Disabilities, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; and the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY.

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Preterm Birth in China Between 2015 and 2016.
Chen C, Zhang JW, Xia HW, Zhang HX, Betran AP, Zhang L, Hua XL, Feng LP, Chen D, Sun K, Guo CM, Qi HB, Duan T, Zhang J. Chen C, et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Nov;109(11):1597-1604. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305287. Epub 2019 Sep 19. Am J Public Health. 2019. PMID: 31536409 Free PMC article.

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