Titre : | Trends in preterm birth and neonatal mortality among Blacks and Whites in the United States from 1989 to 1997. (2001) |
Auteurs : | Kitaw DEMISSIE ; Greg-R ALEXANDER ; Cande-V ANANTH ; K.S. JOSEPH ; Michael-D KOGAN ; Michael-S KRAMER ; George-G RHOADS ; Department of Environmental and Community Medicine. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Piscataway. NJ. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 154, n° 4, 2001) |
Pagination : | 307-315 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Ethnie ; Mortalité néonatale ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Facteur risque ; Etude comparée ; Evolution ; Nouveau né ; Homme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS pw6dR0xo. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Preterm birth, a major determinant of infant mortality, has been increasing in recent years. The authors examined trends in preterm birth and its determinants by using the US birth and infant death files for 1989-1997. The impact of trends in preterm birth rates on neonatal and infant mortality was also evaluated. Among Whites, preterm births ( |