Titre :
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Transgenerational Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on Low Birth Weight Among African Americans in Cook County, Illinois. (2009)
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Auteurs :
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James-Wjr COLLINS ;
Richard-J David ;
Jennifer-R DESIREDDI ;
RANKIN (Kristin-M) : USA. Department of Epidemiology. University of Illinois School of Public Health. Chicago. IL. ;
Department of Pediatrics. Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University. And Children's Memorial Hospital. Chicago. IL. USA
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of epidemiology (vol. 169, n° 6, 2009)
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Pagination :
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712-717
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Pauvreté
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Prématurité
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Homme
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Nourrisson
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Facteur risque
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Epidémiologie
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Amérique
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xo9FIE. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In perinatal epidemiology, transgenerational risk factors are defined as conditions experienced by one generation that affect the pregnancy outcomes of the next generation. The authors investigated the transgenerational effect of neighborhood poverty on infant birth weight among African Americans. Stratified and multilevel logistic regression analyses were performed on an Illinois transgenerational data set with appended US Census income information. Singleton African-American infants (n=40,648) born in 1989-1991 were considered index births. The mothers of index infants had been born in 1956-1976. The maternal grandmothers of index infants were identified. Rates of infant low birth weight (
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