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Clinical Medicine Article
Predictions of Preterm Birth from Early Pregnancy Characteristics: Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study Jian-Rong He 1,2,3 ID , Rema Ramakrishnan 3 , Yu-Mian Lai 2 , Wei-Dong Li 1,4 , Xuan Zhao 1,4 , Yan Hu 1,4 , Nian-Nian Chen 1,4 , Fang Hu 1,4 , Jin-Hua Lu 1,4 , Xue-Ling Wei 1,4 , Ming-Yang Yuan 1,4 , Song-Ying Shen 1 , Lan Qiu 1,4 , Qiao-Zhu Chen 2 , Cui-Yue Hu 1 , Kar Keung Cheng 5 , Ben Willem J. Mol 6 , Hui-Min Xia 1,7 and Xiu Qiu 1,2,4, * 1
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Division of Birth Cohort Study, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623, China;
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[email protected] (H.-M.X.) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangzhou Women and Children Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623, China;
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Received: 4 July 2018; Accepted: 25 July 2018; Published: 27 July 2018
Abstract: Preterm birth (PTB,
