Racial Differences in Low Birth Weight
- 17 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 317 (12) , 749-753
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198709173171207
Abstract
To identify the risk factors responsible for differences in birth weight between blacks and whites, we investigated the effects of four maternal characteristics (age, parity, marital status, and education) on rates of very low birth weight (<1500 g) and moderately low birth weight (between 1500 and 2500 g).This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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