Titre : | Relation of parental birth weights to infant birth weight among African Americans and whites in Illinois : A transgenerational study. (1997) |
Auteurs : | R. COUTINHO ; Jwjr COLLINS ; R.J. David ; Department of Pediatrics. School of Medicine. University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago IL. USA ; Division of Neonatology. Cook County Children's Hospital. Chicago IL. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 146, n° 10, 1997) |
Pagination : | 804-809 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Poids naissance ; Parent ; Epidémiologie ; Nourrisson ; Homme ; Race ; Etats Unis ; Amérique du Nord ; Amérique |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST cR0xgxAG. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The authors used a transgenerational data set of Illinois vital records to ascertain the relation between parental birth weights and infant birth weight. The infant generation consisted of all African Americans and whites born in Illinois during 1989-1991. The parent generation included the mothers and fathers who were also born in Illinois between 1956 and 1975. In the infant cohort, the rate of low birth weight (LBW) ( |