Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 32-38 , January 2005

Nutritional status and birth outcomes of adolescent pregnant girls in Morogoro, Coast, and Dar es Salaam regions, Tanzania

Received 22 May 2004 ,Accepted 25 July 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2004.09.006

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 32-38 , January 2005