Population-level correlates of preterm delivery among black and white women in the U.S.

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Carmichael, Suzan L ^a   Cullen, Mark R ^a   Mayo, Jonathan A ^a   Gould, Jeffrey B ^a   Loftus, Pooja ^a   Stevenson, David K ^a   Wise, Paul H ^a   Shaw, Gary M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIVE BIRTH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899696094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094153     Document Type: Article

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