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A Study of Early Pregnancy Health

* NOTE ABOUT CAUSE

Research following people forward in time and tracking details, can't achieve the ultimate standard for certainty about cause. Current norms to study the cause of an event, like a pregnancy complication, require that participants are randomly assigned, by a process like flipping a coin, to receive or not receive specific medications or types of care, or to do or not do certain activities. Because this is typically not possible in pregnancy, especially to study suspected risk factors, the next best approach is to gather large amounts of information, from many women, and use the best statistical approaches, to get answers.

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