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International Journal of Community & Family Medicine Volume 1 (2016), Article ID 1:IJCFM-123, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/123
Research Article
Incidence of and Risk Factors for Small Size Babies in Bangladesh

M. Mazharul Islam1 and Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan2

1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman
2Applied Statistics, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr. M. Mazharul Islam, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of science, Sultan Qaboos University P.O. Box 36, PC 123, Muscat Sultanate of Oman; E-mail: mislam@squ.edu.om
22 October 2016; 15 December 2016; 17 December 2016
Islam MM, Khan MHR (2016) Incidence of and Risk Factors for Small Size Babies in Bangladesh. Int J Community Fam Med 1: 123. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/123
© 2016 Islam et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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