Chloride Balance in Preterm Infants during the First Week of Life

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</svg> value = 0.000001 at Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance).</table>

International Journal of Pediatrics

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Figure 2: Chloride Balance in Preterm Infants during the First Week of Life 