Race, clinical factors and pre-term birth in a low-income urban setting

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 411-417

  Orr, Suezanne T ^a   Blackmore Prince, Cheryl ^b   James, Sherman A ^b   Griffin, Joan M ^b   Raghunathan, Trivellore ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Pre Term Birth; Pregnancy; Racial Differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BALTIMORE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0034279845     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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