Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Subsequent Cancer Risk: Shared Risk Factors, Causality or Confounding?

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Xie, Shao-Hua (Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention) ;
Yang, Shu-Juan (West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University) ;
Chen, Juan (Shenzhen Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases) ;
Cheng, Jin-Quan (Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

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