An Overlooked and More Complicated Association of Social Support with Infant Birth Size: Commentary on Appleton and Colleagues (2019)

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¹ School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL, 60203, USA. dldubois@uic.edu.
² Department of Psychology, DePaul University, 2219 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60614, USA.

Comment

David L DuBois et al. Matern Child Health J. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;24(9):1111-1112.

doi: 10.1007/s10995-020-02965-9.

¹ School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL, 60203, USA. dldubois@uic.edu.
² Department of Psychology, DePaul University, 2219 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60614, USA.

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Social Support During Pregnancy Modifies the Association Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Infant Birth Size.
Appleton AA, Kiley K, Holdsworth EA, Schell LM. Appleton AA, et al. Matern Child Health J. 2019 Mar;23(3):408-415. doi: 10.1007/s10995-018-02706-z. Matern Child Health J. 2019. PMID: 30627949

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