Birth weight of US biracial (black-white) infants: Regional differences

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 340-349

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a,c   King, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept of Comm Med and Health Care ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Infant Mortality; Low Birth Weight; Race Relations; Social Factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDUCATION; FATHER; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTHER; NEGRO; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATHERS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032149444     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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