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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access Perinatal outcomes in a South Asian setting with high rates of low birth weight 1 1 1 1 Kuryan George , Jasmin Prasad , Daisy Singh , Shanthidani Minz , 1 1 2 3 David S Albert , Jayaprakash Muliyil , K S Joseph* , Jyothi Jayaraman and Michael S Kramer4 Address: 1Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, 2Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 3St. Margarets Bay Medical Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and 4Departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Email: Kuryan George - kuryan@cmcvellore.ac.in; Jasmin Prasad - jasminep@cmcvellore.ac.in; Daisy Singh - pushp@cmcvellore.ac.in; Shanthidani Minz - shantidani@cmcvellore.ac.in; David S Albert - david.selvapandian@; Jayaprakash Muliyil - jayaprakash@cmcvellore.ac.in; K S Joseph* - ksjoseph@dal.ca; Jyothi Jayaraman - j.jayaraman@ns.sympatico.ca; Michael S Kramer - michael.kramer@mcgill.ca * Corresponding author Published: 9 February 2009 Received: 29 August 2008 Accepted: 9 February 2009 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2009, 9:5 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-9-5 This article is available from: /1471-2393/9/5 © 2009 George et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access arti