Race Disparities and Decreasing Birth Weight: Are All Babies Getting Smaller?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 15-23

  Catov, Janet M ^a   Lee, Minjae ^a   Roberts, James M ^a   Xu, Jia ^a   Simhan, Hyagriv N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

birth weight; growth restriction; macrosomia; obesity

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BIRTH RATE; CANCER; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPERTENSION; NEONATE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; ICD-9; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL OBESITY; MEDICAL RECORD; NULLIPARA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY RATE; RACE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SMOKING; UNDERWEIGHT; UNITED STATES; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PENNSYLVANIA; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIRTH WEIGHT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84954288441     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv194     Document Type: Article

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