Maternal Early Life Risk Factors for Offspring Birth Weight: Findings from the Add Health Study

Prevention Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 162-172

  Gavin, Amelia R ^a   Thompson, Elaine ^a   Rue, Tessa ^a   Guo, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; Adolescent substance use; Childhood maltreatment; Childhood socioeconomic status; Low birth weight; Prenatal smoking

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD ABUSE; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84858295269     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-011-0253-2     Document Type: Article

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