Ethnicity, Acculturation and Obstetric Outcomes: Different Risk Factor Profiles in Low- and High-Acculturation Hispanics and in White Non-Hispanics

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-22

  Coonrod, Dean V ^a   Bay, R Curtis ^b   Balcazar, Hector ^b  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acculturation; Hispanic Americans; Pregnancy outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ARIZONA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1642536391     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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