Changing patterns of inequality in birthweight and its determinants: A population-based study, Scotland 1980-2000

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 342-351

  Fairley, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MARITAL STATUS; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 24144496873     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2005.00665.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Macfarlane A, Mugford M. Birth Counts: Statistics of Pregnancy and Childbirth. London: HMSO, 1984.
2. Cooke RWI, Foulder-Hughes L. Growth impairment in the very preterm and cognitive and motor performance at 7 years. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003; 88:482-487.
3. Power C, Li L. Cohort study of birthweight, mortality, and disability. British Medical Journal 2000; 320:840-841.
4. Curhan GC, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Spiegelman D, Ascherio AL, Stampfer MJ. Birth weight and adult hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and obesity in US men. Circulation 1996; 94:3246-3250.
5. Barker DJP. The fetal and infant origins of adult disease. British Medical Journal 1990; 301:1111.
6. Martyn CN, Barker DJP, Osmond C. Mothers' pelvic size, fetal growth, and death from stroke and coronary heart disease in men in the UK. Lancet 1996; 348:1264-1268.
7. Bonellie SR, Raab GM. Why are babies getting heavier? Comparison of Scottish births from 1980 to 1992. British Medical Journal 1997; 315:1205.
8. Information and Statistics Division, Scotland. Births in Scotland 1976-1995. Births in Scotland Publication Series Volume 1. Edinburgh: ISD Publications, 1997.
9. de Sanjose S, Roman E. Low birth weight, preterm, and small for gestational age babies in Scotland, 1981-1984. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1991; 45:207-210.
10. Information and Statistics Division, Scotland. Small Babies in Scotland: A Ten Year Overview 1987-1996. Births in Scotland Publication Series Volume 2. Edinburgh: ISD Publications, 1998.
11. Meis PJ, Michielutte R, Peters TJ, Wells HB, Sands RE, Coles EC, et al. Factors associated with term low birthweight in Cardiff, Wales. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1997; 11:287-297.
12. Macfarlane A, Stafford M, Moser K. Social inequalities. Chapter 8. In: The Health of Children and Young People. London: Office for National Statistics, 2004.
13. Peters TJ, Golding J, Butler NR, Fryer JG, Lawrence CJ, Chamberlain GVP. Plus-ça-change: predictors of birth-weight in two national studies. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1983; 90:1040-1045.
14. Regidor E. Measures of health inequalities: part 2. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2004; 58:900-903.
15. Claussen B, Smith GD, Thelle D. Impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on cause specific mortality: the Oslo Mortality Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003; 57:40-15.
16. Smith GD, Hart C, Hole D, MacKinnon P, Gillis C, Watt G, et al. Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1998; 52:153-160.
17. Cooper J, Botting B. Analysing fertility and infant mortality by mother's social class as defined by occupation. Population Trends 1992; 70:15-21.
18. Shouls S, Whitehead M, Burstrom B, Diderichsen F. The health and socio-economic circumstances of British lone mothers over the last two decades. Population Trends 1999; 95:41-46.
19. Maher J, Macfarlane A. Trends in live births and birthweight by social class, marital status and mother's age, 1976-2000. Health Statistics Quarterly 2004; 23:34-43.
20. Kiernan K. Childbearing outside marriage in Western Europe. Population Trends 1999; 90:11-20.
21. Kiernan K, Smith K. Unmarried parenthood: new insights from the Millennium Cohort Study. Population Trends 2003; 114:26-33.
22. Bonellie SR. Effect of maternal age, smoking and deprivation on birth weight. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2001; 15:19-26.
23. Spencer N, Logan S. Social influences on birth weight. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neouatal Edition 2002; 86:F6-F7.
24. Power C. National trends in birth weight: implications for future adult disease. British Medical Journal 1994; 308:1270-1271.
25. Spencer N, Bambang S, Logan S, Gill L. Socioeconomic status and birth weight: comparison of an area-based measure with the Registrar General's social class. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1999; 53:495-498.
26. Moser K, Li L, Power C. Social inequalities in low birth weight in England and Wales, trends and implications for future population health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003; 57:687-691.