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Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012
Despite a remarkable increase in Asian births in the U.S., studies on their birth outcomes have been lacking. We investigated outcomes of births to Asian parents and biracial Asian/White parents in the U.S. From the U.S. birth data (1992–2012), we selected singleton births to Korean, Chinese, Japane...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102859/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1949 |
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author | Kim, Do-Hyun Jeon, Jihyun Park, Chang Gi Sriram, Sudhir Lee, Kwang-sun |
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description | Despite a remarkable increase in Asian births in the U.S., studies on their birth outcomes have been lacking. We investigated outcomes of births to Asian parents and biracial Asian/White parents in the U.S. From the U.S. birth data (1992–2012), we selected singleton births to Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese. These births were divided into three groups; births to White mother/Asian father, Asian mother/White father, and births to the both ethnic Asian parents. We compared birth outcomes of these 18 subgroups to those of the White mother/White father group. Mean birthweights of births to the Asian parents were significantly lower, ranging 18 g to 295 g less than to the White parents. Compared to the rates of low birthweight (LBW) (4.6%) and preterm birth (PTB) (8.5%) in births to the White parents, births to Filipino parents had the highest rates of LBW (8.0%) and PTB (11.3%), respectively, and births to Korean parents had the lowest rates of both LBW (3.7%) and PTB (5.5%). This pattern of outcomes had changed little with adjustments of maternal sociodemographic and health factors. This observation was similarly noted also in births to the biracial parents, but the impact of paternal or maternal race on birth outcome was different by race/ethnicity. Compared to births to White parents, birth outcomes from the Asian parents or biracial Asian/White parents differed depending on the ethnic origin of Asian parents. The race/ethnicity was the strongest factor for this difference while other parental characteristics hardly explained this difference. |
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spelling | pubmed-51028592016-12-01 Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 Kim, Do-Hyun Jeon, Jihyun Park, Chang Gi Sriram, Sudhir Lee, Kwang-sun J Korean Med Sci Original Article Despite a remarkable increase in Asian births in the U.S., studies on their birth outcomes have been lacking. We investigated outcomes of births to Asian parents and biracial Asian/White parents in the U.S. From the U.S. birth data (1992–2012), we selected singleton births to Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese. These births were divided into three groups; births to White mother/Asian father, Asian mother/White father, and births to the both ethnic Asian parents. We compared birth outcomes of these 18 subgroups to those of the White mother/White father group. Mean birthweights of births to the Asian parents were significantly lower, ranging 18 g to 295 g less than to the White parents. Compared to the rates of low birthweight (LBW) (4.6%) and preterm birth (PTB) (8.5%) in births to the White parents, births to Filipino parents had the highest rates of LBW (8.0%) and PTB (11.3%), respectively, and births to Korean parents had the lowest rates of both LBW (3.7%) and PTB (5.5%). This pattern of outcomes had changed little with adjustments of maternal sociodemographic and health factors. This observation was similarly noted also in births to the biracial parents, but the impact of paternal or maternal race on birth outcome was different by race/ethnicity. Compared to births to White parents, birth outcomes from the Asian parents or biracial Asian/White parents differed depending on the ethnic origin of Asian parents. The race/ethnicity was the strongest factor for this difference while other parental characteristics hardly explained this difference. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2016-12 2016-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5102859/ /pubmed/27822934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1949 Text en © 2016 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kim, Do-Hyun Jeon, Jihyun Park, Chang Gi Sriram, Sudhir Lee, Kwang-sun Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 |
title | Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 |
title_full | Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 |
title_fullStr | Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 |
title_full_unstemmed | Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 |
title_short | Births to Parents with Asian Origins in the United States, 1992–2012 |
title_sort | births to parents with asian origins in the united states, 1992–2012 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102859/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1949 |
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