An overview of racial disparities in preterm birth rates: Caused by infection or inflammatory response?

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1325-1331

  Menon, Ramkumar ^a   Dunlop, Anne L ^b   Kramer, Michael R ^a   Fortunato, Stephen J ^c   Hogue, Carol J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Perinatal Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; health disparities; infant health; infection; prematurity

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASE; COLLAGENASE 3; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ENDOTOXIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; STROMELYSIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNION FLUID; BIRTH RATE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACIAL DISPARITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VERY PRETERM BIRTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81355141962     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01135.x     Document Type: Review

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