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Social factors displace delayed care as a risk for low-birth-weight deliveries.
2003 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Social factors displace delayed prenatal care as a risk for low-birth-weight deliveries.
According to recent research from the United States, "to determine if the timing of prenatal care is associated with low birth weight delivery after adjusting for sociodemographic and behavioral risk factors, we performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of singleton births to white (2,945,595) or African-American (552,068) women in the United States in 1996."
"When adjusted for race, maternal age, educational level attained, and the use of alcohol and tobacco during pregnancy, women beginning care in the second (adjusted RR = 0.85; 95% CI: 0.83-0.86) and 3rd trimesters (RR = 0.87; 95% CI: 0.84-0.91) had a reduced risk of low birth weight compared to women beginning care in the first trimester," wrote W.J. Hueston and colleagues, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Family Medicine.
"Our findings suggest that no benefit exists for early initiation of ...
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- Magazine article from: Health Services Research Frick, Kevin D. Lantz, Paula M. December 1, 1999 700+ words
...potential effect of prenatal care on birth weight and other outcomes...estimate the impact of prenatal care on birth weight or other outcomes without...relationship between prenatal care and birth weight. Liu investigated the...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Community Health Hueston, William J. Gilbert, Gregory E. Davis, Lucy Sturgill, Vanessa June 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Health Services Research Dubay, Lisa Joyce, Ted Kaestner, Robert Kenney, Genevieve M. June 1, 2001 700+ words
...late initiation of prenatal care and the rate of low birth weight. Data Collection...late initiation of prenatal care decreased by 6...the rate of low birth weight during the 1986...improvements in prenatal care utilization among...
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- Magazine article from: International Family Planning Perspectives Rosenberg, J. June 1, 2004 700+ words
...effect on low birth weight through their associations with prenatal care. To identify...associated with low birth weight and with prenatal care. The sample...received no prenatal care to have had a low-birth-weight infant. Being...
- Prenatal care use and birth outcomes of low-income women improve after Medicaid...
- Magazine article from: Family Planning Perspectives Althaus, Frances A. July 1, 1998 700+ words
...likely to obtain prenatal care and less likely...to have a low-birth, weight infant or to have...women who received prenatal care from county health...amount and timing of prenatal care, infant birth weight and infant deaths...
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- Magazine article from: Family Planning Perspectives Brown, B. May 1, 2000 700+ words
...received prenatal care had low-birth-weight infants...received prenatal care. To calculate...risk of low birth weight and preterm...for a low-birth-weight infant whose...received prenatal care. On the...
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- Magazine article from: Family Planning Perspectives Reichman, Nancy E. Keney, Genevieve M. July 1, 1998 700+ words
...on early initiation of prenatal care, low birth weight, infant mortality and...ways: First, since low birth weight is a marker for infant...ethnicity not only on prenatal care use and low birth weight, but also on infant mortality...
- On the Issues of the Effectiveness of Prenatal Care: A Reply.
- Magazine article from: Health Services Research Liu, Gordon G. December 1, 1999 700+ words
...evaluations of specific prenatal care expansion programs...incidence of low birth weight and infant death...effectiveness of prenatal care have prompted a...relationship between prenatal care use and birth weight may be attributed...
- Prenatal Care--Necessary but Not Sufficient.(Statistical Data Included)
- Magazine article from: Health Services Research McCormick, Marie C. June 1, 2001 700+ words
...can be attributed to infants born at low birth weight (LBW, [less than]2,500 grams...the prenatal period as part of expanded prenatal care (Preventing Low Birth Weight 1985; Prenatal Care 1988). In response, between 1985 and...
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- News wire article from: Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) March 31, 2007 700+ words
...A three-year study on prenatal care and low birth weight for infants in the San Joaquin...new mothers get adequate prenatal care. The results were announced...while California had better prenatal care rates than other states...
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