Racial and ethnic health disparities in reproductive medicine: An evidence-based overview

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 317-324

  Owen, Carter M ^a   Goldstein, Ellen H ^b   Clayton, Janine A ^c   Segars, James H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

admixture; ancestry informative markers; developmental origins of adult disease; epigenetic; infertility; racial disparities; transgenerational

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DIOXIN; HYDROCARBON; PLASTIC;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC STRESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; RACE DIFFERENCE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84881537727     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1348889     Document Type: Article

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