The Birth Weight "Paradox" Uncovered?
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Testing the epidemiologic paradox of low birth weight in Latinos.
BACKGROUND Rates of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants are similar between Latina and white women, an epidemiologic paradox. However, few studies have analyzed the relationship between ethnicity, Latino subgroup, confounding variables, and LBW. METHODS We analyzed 395070 singleton livebirths to Latina and non-Latina white women in California during 1992. Multivariate logistic regression was used ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj275