Vital Signs: Patterns: When a Bumper Crop Led to a Baby Bulge

Monday, January 3, 2011 - 15:20 in Health & Medicine

A study of 18th-century rural Finlanders finds that almost everyone from a poor family born in bumper crop years went on to have at least one baby, those born in lean years far less often.

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