Enigma of Maternal Race and Infant Birth Welght: A Population-based Study of US-born Black and Caribbean-born Black Women
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- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 151 (11) , 1080-1085
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010151
Abstract
The authors used 1985–1990 Illinois' vital records to determine the low birth weight components of infants delivered to US-born Black women, Caribbean-born Black women, and US-born White women. The moderately low birth weight rate (1, 500–2, 499 g) was 10percnt; for infants with US-born Black mothers (n=67, 357) and 6= for infants with Carlbbean-born mothers (n = 2.265) compared with 4% of rinfants with US-born White mothers (n = 34, 124); the relative risk equaled 2.7 (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.5, 2.8) and 1.7 (95% CI: 1.4, 2.0), respectively. The very low birth weight rate (Am J Epidemiol 2000; 151: 1080-5.Keywords
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