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Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States
Though disparities in birth weight by race/ethnicity have been extensively reported in the United States, few studies have systematically investigated factors attributing to its variability. For 10,638,415 singleton infants born during 2009–2012 in the United States, we examined birth weight differe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46657 |
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author | Morisaki, Naho Kawachi, Ichiro Oken, Emily Fujiwara, Takeo |
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description | Though disparities in birth weight by race/ethnicity have been extensively reported in the United States, few studies have systematically investigated factors attributing to its variability. For 10,638,415 singleton infants born during 2009–2012 in the United States, we examined birth weight differences among 14 races and ethnicities (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic Black, American Indian, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Guamanian, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban), after sequentially adjusting for maternal, socio-economic and behavioral factors. Average birthweight of non-Hispanic white infants was 3381 g, while for other races/ethnicities birth weight ranged from being 289 g smaller in Japanese to 126 g larger in Samoan infants. Factors explaining differences of more than 50 grams in birth weight compared to white infants were: gestational age for black infants, height and body mass index for all Asian and Samoan mothers, and gestational weight gain for Japanese mothers. Difference in maternal age, parity, socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics did not account for significant portion of birthweight variations for any race. Our findings suggest that differences in maternal anthropometrics, gestational weight gain, and preterm birth rate, but not in maternal age, parity, socioeconomic or behavioral characteristics contribute to racial/ethnic differences in birthweight. |
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spelling | pubmed-53993582017-04-21 Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States Morisaki, Naho Kawachi, Ichiro Oken, Emily Fujiwara, Takeo Sci Rep Article Though disparities in birth weight by race/ethnicity have been extensively reported in the United States, few studies have systematically investigated factors attributing to its variability. For 10,638,415 singleton infants born during 2009–2012 in the United States, we examined birth weight differences among 14 races and ethnicities (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic Black, American Indian, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Guamanian, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban), after sequentially adjusting for maternal, socio-economic and behavioral factors. Average birthweight of non-Hispanic white infants was 3381 g, while for other races/ethnicities birth weight ranged from being 289 g smaller in Japanese to 126 g larger in Samoan infants. Factors explaining differences of more than 50 grams in birth weight compared to white infants were: gestational age for black infants, height and body mass index for all Asian and Samoan mothers, and gestational weight gain for Japanese mothers. Difference in maternal age, parity, socioeconomic and behavioral characteristics did not account for significant portion of birthweight variations for any race. Our findings suggest that differences in maternal anthropometrics, gestational weight gain, and preterm birth rate, but not in maternal age, parity, socioeconomic or behavioral characteristics contribute to racial/ethnic differences in birthweight. Nature Publishing Group 2017-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5399358/ /pubmed/28429791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46657 Text en Copyright © 2017, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Morisaki, Naho Kawachi, Ichiro Oken, Emily Fujiwara, Takeo Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States |
title | Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States |
title_full | Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States |
title_fullStr | Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States |
title_full_unstemmed | Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States |
title_short | Social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the United States |
title_sort | social and anthropometric factors explaining racial/ethnical differences in birth weight in the united states |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46657 |
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