Relation of traditional risk factors to intrauterine growth retardation among United States-born and foreign-born Mexican Americans in Chicago

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-25

  Collins Jr , James W ^a,b   Martin, Camilia R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrauterine Growth Retardation; Mexican American; Nativity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ILLEGITIMACY; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHICAGO; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; ILLEGITIMACY; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032325752     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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