Do foreign- and U.S.-born mothers across racial/ethnic groups have a similar risk profile for selected sociodemographic and periconceptional factors?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 823-830

  Ramadhani, Tunu A ^a   Canfield, Mark A ^a   Farag, Noha H ^a,b   Royle, Marjorie ^c   Correa, Adolfo ^d   Waller, D Kim ^e   Scheuerle, Angela ^a,f  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Tesserae Genetics Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign born; Health conditions; Nativity; Periconceptional behavioral factors; Race ethnicity; Sociodemographic factors; U.S. born

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONCEPTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MOTHER; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052576393     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20839     Document Type: Article

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